| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus, an image processing method, a computer program and a recording medium, which determine top and bottom of the original document based on image data acquired by scanning an original document.SOLUTION: An original document detection unit 23 determines a top and bottom direction of each character in an original document based on image data obtained by an image input device 1 scanning the original document, and counts the number of characters determined in each direction for each top and bottom direction. The original document detection unit 23 determines a top and bottom direction of the original document based on the counting results, and if the decision has failed, then the detection unit causes a user to input a top and bottom direction of the original document from an operational panel 4 in the case of the decision-failed, first original document to regard the input as a top and bottom direction. The original document detection unit 23 estimates a top and bottom direction of the original document for which the decision has failed after that, based on the counting results for this original document and a top and bottom direction input by the user for a first original document for which the decision has failed. |
