PRINTING PROPRIETY DISCRIMINATION METHOD, CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION PROPRIETY DISCRIMINATION DEVICE, PRINTING PROPRIETY DISCRIMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more appropriately print an image with characters compared with a conventional manner.SOLUTION: An image formation device 1 includes: a character identification processing part 104 for performing first processing so as to discriminate whether or not each one of multiple characters in a manuscript image can be identified; a readability discrimination part 105 for performing second processing different from the first processing so as to discriminate whether or not each one of unidentifiable characters being the characters discriminated not to be identified in the manuscript image by the character identification processing part 104 can be identified; and a printing permission discrimination part 106 for discriminating permission to print the manuscript image when the rate of characters discriminated to be identifiable by the character identification processing part 104 or the readability discrimination part 105 exceeds a predetermined rate.