Method and apparatus for determining form sheet type

摘要

A form sheet type determining method and apparatus for determining to which of predetermined form sheets an input form sheet corresponds. A plurality of sets of keywords are registered in a keyword register (86) with one set of keywords for each predetermined form sheet type; image data of an input form sheet is read, character strings are extracted from the read image data, and character recognition is performed on each extracted character string; each of the character recognized strings is extracted as a keyword; the extracted keywords are collated, for each form sheet type, with the sets of keywords registered in the keyword register (86), thereby to determine the type of the input form sheet.