Information processing device, information processing system, and program

Abstract

To provide an information processing device and program, which allow for determining whether an electronic document requires optical character recognition processing or not.SOLUTION: An information processing device provided herein comprises a processor configured to: receive an electronic document generated by an application program while retaining text information, or an electronic document generated by reading an image using a document reader device; perform type determination on a portion of the received electronic document showing text to determine whether the electronic document was generated by the application program or generated by the document reader device; and determine whether to perform optical character recognition processing on the electronic document or not based on a result of the type determination.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

Claims

1. Equipped with a processor, The aforementioned processor, The application program accepts electronic documents that retain text information, or electronic documents that are generated by reading images using a document reader. Of the received electronic documents, the system performs a determination of whether the electronic document containing a text portion was generated by the application program or by the document reader. Based on the results of the type determination, a decision is made as to whether or not to perform optical character recognition processing on the electronic document. The aforementioned electronic document stores source information regarding the source that generated the electronic document. The aforementioned processor, The first type determination is performed based on whether or not text information exists in the electronic document, and whether or not an image exists on the entire page of the electronic document and whether or not the text information is drawn as transparent characters. The second type determination is performed based on the source information in the electronic document. Information processing device.

2. The aforementioned processor, The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, which performs the optical character recognition process on an electronic document that is determined to have been generated by the document reader among the electronic documents, generates text data for the electronic document, and embeds and stores the text data in the electronic document.

3. The aforementioned processor, The information processing device according to claim 2, which extracts predetermined attribute data from the text data and embeds it in the electronic document and stores it as attribute information of the electronic document.

4. The aforementioned processor, The information processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which performs the type determination based on whether the source information in the electronic document is included in the source information predetermined for the model information of the document reader.

5. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the portion representing text contained in an electronic document generated by reading an image with the document reading device is information embedded in the electronic document by optical character recognition processing performed when the document reading device reads the image.

6. On the computer, The application program accepts electronic documents that retain text information, or electronic documents that are generated by reading images using a document reader. Of the received electronic documents, the system performs a determination of whether the electronic document containing a text portion was generated by the application program or by the document reader. Based on the result of the type determination, a process is executed to determine whether or not to perform optical character recognition processing on the electronic document. The aforementioned electronic document stores source information regarding the source that generated the electronic document. The first type determination is performed based on whether or not text information exists in the electronic document, and whether or not an image exists on the entire page of the electronic document and whether or not the text information is drawn as transparent characters. The process of performing a second type determination based on the source information in the electronic document is executed. program.

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