Image Processing Apparatus Folder Path Verification Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing image processing systems require burdensome user verification for file names and folder paths created from scanned images, especially when the certainty factor of the OCR process is low, leading to inefficiencies in automatic transmission processes.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that acquires image data, performs character recognition, and determines the certainty factor of detected character strings to decide whether to automatically create a folder path or require user verification, reducing unnecessary checks by excluding certain character strings from threshold value processing if they match past-approved paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a certainty factor threshold is applied to all character strings in folder paths, then automation extent is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to unnecessary user verification of certain paths
Solution Approach 1:
The folder path is segmented into multiple character string components, and each component is independently evaluated for certainty. This allows the system to identify which specific parts of the path require verification and which can be automatically processed, resolving the contradiction between automation and productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
Different verification requirements are applied to different parts of the folder path based on their individual certainty factors. Character strings with high certainty factors (matching past approved paths) are processed automatically, while those with low certainty factors require user verification. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by applying automation selectively rather than uniformly.
2Reliability
If user verification is required for all low certainty factor cases, then reliability is improved, but loss of time increases due to burdensome checking work
Solution Approach 1:
The verification requirement is extracted and applied only to specific character strings that have low certainty factors, rather than requiring verification of entire folder paths. This selective extraction of verification needs maintains reliability for uncertain cases while eliminating unnecessary verification time for certain cases.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of certainty factors for each character string in the folder path before determining verification requirements. This preliminary assessment allows the system to pre-identify which components need user verification and which can proceed automatically, reducing overall verification time while maintaining reliability.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to acquire image data, a unit configured to perform a character recognition process on the acquired image data to detect a character string, and create a folder path indicating a storage destination of the acquired image data including one or more of the detected character strings, and a unit configured to determine whether or not each of the character strings forming the created folder path is a character string representing a specific folder name, determine whether or not a certainty factor of a result of the character recognition process for a character string determined as not being a character string representing the specific folder name is equal to or less than a threshold value, and if there is at least one character string for which determination of being equal to or less than the threshold value has been made, set the created folder path as a target for checking by a user.