Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Akinobu Yamaguchi

Shintaro Adachi

Junichi Shimizu

Shinya Nakamura

Akane Abe

Kunihiko Kobayashi

Yang Liu

Masanori Yoshizuka

Daigo Horie

Shigeru Okada

Kazuhiro Oya

Naomi Takahashi

Jun Ando

Kunikazu Ueno

Fumi Kosaka

Shunichi Kimura

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract a table group including a first table and at least one second table from plural tables formed as images, the first table and the at least one second table having a common characteristic in terms of a table structure, the first table including a heading row representing attributes of attribute values included in the first table and the at least one second table, the at least one second table not including the heading row; relate the first table and the at least one second table included in the table group to each other so that the first table and the at least one second table are arranged in consecutive order, by using attribute values of an attribute which is included in the heading row and which represents consecutiveness of the first table and the at least one second table; and obtain attribute values corresponding to each of the attributes included in the heading row from a table sequence, the table sequence including the first table and the at least one second table arranged in consecutive order.

Information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract attribute values for plural attributes from an optical character recognition (OCR) result for an image in accordance with an extraction rule determined in advance, and generate an extraction result in which the extracted attribute values and the respective attributes are correlated with each other; and perform control so as to associate, in accordance with an association rule for associating an attribute value for a sub attribute with a different attribute, the attribute value for the sub attribute with the different attribute included in the extraction result, the sub attribute being an attribute for which an attribute value is extracted from the image and which supplements a content for the different attribute.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an electronic document generated while maintaining text information by an application program or an electronic document generated by reading an image with a document reading apparatus; perform type determination as to whether the received electronic document including a portion representing a text is generated by the application program or generated by the document reading apparatus; and determine based on a result of the type determination whether an optical character recognition process is to be performed on the electronic document.

Determine whether OCR is to be performed for optimizing optical character recognition process

An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.

Information processing device and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a manuscript image and an additional image added to the manuscript image, and reduce an image area other than a blank area in the manuscript image so that the additional image fits in the blank area of the manuscript image.

Information processing apparatus and computer program product for reducing an image area or enlarging a blank area of a manuscript so an additional image fits in the blank area

An image processing apparatus includes a first image generator and a second image generator. The first image generator generates a first image, including a predetermined ruled-line image and an inscription image, from a second sheet in a sheet group. The sheet group is obtained by stacking multiple sheets including a single first sheet and the second sheet. The first sheet has inscription information inscribed thereon. The second sheet has the inscription image corresponding to the inscription information transferred thereon and includes the ruled-line image. The second image generator generates a second image in which a surplus image is removed from the first image generated by the first image generator in accordance with a learning model that has learned to remove the surplus image different from the ruled-line image and the inscription image.

Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

A query generation system includes a database and a processor. The database stores information to be searched, the information being associated with features having multiple types of expressions. The processor is configured to, when a character string to be used to search the database is input without constraint on a type of expression, apply a first dictionary to a character string having a first type of expression, which is included in the input character string, to generate a query for a search from the character string having the first type of expression.

Query generation system, search system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A search criterion determination system includes: at least one processor configured to extract, in a case where plural images are inputted as a query, features from elements included in each image, determine at least one feature to be provided to a search engine as an input feature based on a relation between the extracted features, and transmit information based on the input feature to the search engine.

Search criterion determination system, search system, and computer readable medium

A query change system includes: a processor configured to correct, in a case where a first query image inputted by a user includes a contradicting part that contradicts a first condition related to a search target, the contradicting part of the first query image in accordance with the first condition to generate a second query image.

Query change system, search system, and computer readable medium

A query modification assistance system includes: a processor configured to present, in a case where at least a part of an image used as a query that is to be provided to a search engine is designated as a target to be modified, assist information for assisting a modification according to at least one condition relating to the target, to a user.

Query modification assistance system, search system, and computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit, an extraction unit, a memory unit, a determination unit, and an assignment unit. The processing unit executes a character recognition process. The extraction unit extracts at least one area located within a predetermined range from a first area that is included in a designated image and that is designated to undergo the character recognition process. The at least one area is a second area. The memory unit stores an attribute on a per character string basis. The determination unit determines, on a basis of the attribute stored by the memory unit, an attribute corresponding to a character string recognized as one or more characters from the first area by the processing unit and a character string recognized as one or more characters from the second area by the processing unit. The assignment unit assigns the determined attribute to the designated image.

Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a first designation unit, a second designation unit, a position acquisition unit, a memory, and an extraction unit. The first designation unit designates an extensive area from a first read image, the extensive area including an output area and an object area. The second designation unit designates the output area from the designated extensive area. The position acquisition unit acquires positional information regarding the extensive area with respect to the first read image and positional information regarding the output area with respect to the extensive area. The memory stores the positional information regarding the extensive area and the positional information regarding the output area. The extraction unit identifies a position of the extensive area in a second read image in a format identical to a format of the first read image on a basis of the positional information regarding the extensive area stored by the memory. The extraction unit also extracts the output area in the second read image on a basis of the position of the extensive area and the positional information regarding the output area stored by the memory.

An image processing apparatus includes a layout analyzing part that executes layout analysis for image data, an extraction part that extracts a diagrammatic representation from the image data by using a result of the layout analysis, a character recognizing part that executes character recognition for a partial area having a high probability of presence of a character string in a relationship with the extracted diagrammatic representation, and an erecting direction deciding part that decides an erecting direction of the image data by using a result of the character recognition.

Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

An image processing device includes multiple image processing units, each trained to accommodate a different feature possibly contained in an image, a decision unit that decides a sequence of the multiple image processing units according to the features contained in an input image, and an application unit that applies the image processing units to the input image in the sequence decided by the decision unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akinobu Yamaguchi