IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: SEGARRA, JR., Nixon, NEGAPATAN, Jefty, MOLINA, Deniel, PABALATE, Jay, CAGATAN, Vinald Rey, NAVARRO, Irish, QUIMBO, Shiela Mae, BURGOS, Jesus Jovannie John, OMANGAYON, Rodney, DINGLE, John Paul
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.06.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading device that optically reads a document to obtain image data; a character recognizer that recognizes a character pattern included in the image data as a character; a character estimator that, for the character pattern that the character recognizer failed to recognize, from characters, which precede and follow the character pattern and have been recognized by the character recognizer, estimates, in accordance with a grammar rule, a character that the character pattern indicates; and an image data reconfigurer that arranges each character recognized by the character recognizer and each character estimated by the character estimator in an order same as an arrangement order of each character pattern included in the image data to generate reconfigured image data.