An information processing apparatus capable of reducing troublesome work of a user when converting an image obtained by newly scanning a business form to a file. An information processing apparatus that sets, when converting the image to a file, a file name of the image. A preview image of the scanned original is displayed, and user selection of a character area on the preview image is detected. An item name candidate area is extracted based on location information of the character area selected by the user on the preview image, and a character string included in the item name candidate area is set as an item name of a character string included in the character area selected by the user. The set item name is displayed as a file name rule such that the set item name is selectable by the user.

An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading device that reads a plurality of original documents on a document support surface in a batch; an individual image cutouter that cuts individual images of the original documents out of image data obtained by batch reading; a character recognizer that recognizes, for each individual image, characters in the individual image; a document determiner that determines, for each individual image, whether the recognized characters contain a type name; an acquirer that acquires, from the characters determined to contain the type name, a plurality of informative character strings associated one-to-one with a plurality of item names; a data generator that generates, for each individual image, a piece of document data in which the type name is associated with the plurality of acquired informative character strings; and a document data storage that stores the pieces of document data generated one for each individual image.

An image forming apparatus includes an operation device; a storage that stores classification determination information and a user classification rule; a memory that stores instructions; and a processor. The processor executes the instructions stored to: input image data on a document; acquire the input image data on the document; acquire, from the acquired image data, feature quantity; and update the user classification rule. The user classification rule is information in which a criterion for classifying a document having specific feature quantity is set for each user in association with the specific feature quantity. When the user uses the operation device to perform a specific classification operation on image data on a document having the acquired feature quantity, the processor executes the instructions to change a criterion of the user classification rule of the user associated with the acquired feature quantity to a criterion corresponding to the specific classification operation.

Provided is an image reading apparatus capable of eliminating the need for a user to correct a character portion that cannot be recognized by OCR and improve the operation burden on the user. A non-word detecting unit detects a non-word that is not considered to be a word among a plurality of words constituting the text in a document. A determining unit determines whether or not a compound word obtained by combining the non-word with at least one of the word immediately before the non-word and the word immediately after the non-word in that arrangement order is a word. A character correcting unit identifies the text portion corresponding to the compound word in the text in the document as a failed character recognition portion, and corrects the text of the failed character recognition portion to the text of the compound word.

An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing one or more characters included in image data and acquiring character information, a display unit configured to display one or more characters indicated by the character information acquired by the character recognition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to a folder the name of which is a character selected by a user from among the one or more characters displayed by the display unit.

An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing a character string included in image data, a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to store the image data in a folder including a name containing the character string acquired by the character recognition processing, and a reception unit configured to receive an instruction from a user. In a case where a result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the transmission unit does not transmit the image data until the reception unit receives the instruction from the user. In a case where the result of the character recognition processing by the character recognition unit satisfies the predetermined condition, the transmission unit transmits the image data without receiving the instruction from the user by the reception unit.

A image processing system which make it possible to reduce user time and effort in checking OCR error image data. The image processing system performs OCR processing on image data generated by an image forming apparatus in response to selection of an object by a user and stores the image data in a folder having a folder name formed by using a character string obtained by the OCR processing. The system includes a storage control unit configured to store the image data, in a case where the character string obtained by performing the OCR processing on the generated image data does not satisfy a predetermined condition, in a folder associated with the object.

An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.

An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus generates a name using characters recognized in image data, assign the name to the image data, and store the image data; makes a request for approval by a user regarding the name, transmit the image data to an external apparatus after the image data is approved by the user, and deletes the image data; in a case where the image data has exceeded a predetermined storage period without the name being approved by the user, in a case where the name satisfies a predetermined condition, transmits the image data to the external apparatus before deleting the image data; and deletes the image data that has exceeded the predetermined storage period without the name being approved by the user.

An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing one or more characters included in image data and acquiring character information, a display unit configured to display one or more characters indicated by the character information acquired by the character recognition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to a folder the name of which is a character selected by a user from among the one or more characters displayed by the display unit.