Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Shintaro Adachi

Shigeru Okada

Kunihiko Kobayashi

Katsuya Koyanagi

Hiroyuki Kishimoto

Akinobu Yamaguchi

Akane Yoshizaki

Minoru Sodeura

Kazuhiro Oya

Tsutomu Kimura

Shinji Hanaoka

Akane Abe

Junichi Shimizu

Shinya Nakamura

Yang Liu

Kenji Yamada

Hiroyoshi Uejo

Masanori Yoshizuka

Daigo Horie

Kazuhiro Ohya

Hiroshi Hayashi

Toshiyuki Yamada

Nobuo Inoue

Hiromi Kita

Tadaomi Suzuki

Naomi Takahashi

Takeshi Furuyama

Masakatsu Kanda

Kunikazu Ueno

Zhenrui Zhang

Chihiro Matsuguma

Shunichi Kimura

Shusaku Kubo

Noriko Arai

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 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.

Image processing device, method and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit, a memory, a registration unit, and an extraction unit. The recognition unit performs recognition of one or more characters included in an image and outputs character information indicating the one or more characters. The memory stores a first specific character and a second specific character in association with each other. The first specific character has an index taking on a value lower than a predetermined value. The index indicates accuracy of the recognition performed by the recognition unit. The second specific character is output after the recognition unit performs the recognition of the first specific character. The registration unit registers at least one character or at least one character string as an extraction target. The registration unit registers a first character or a first character string as an extraction target and a second character or a second character string as an extraction target if an operator performs an operation for registering the first character or the first character string as the extraction target and if the first character or the first character string includes the first specific character. The second character or the second character string is composed by replacing the first specific character in the first character or the first character string with the second specific character. The extraction unit extracts at least one character or at least one character string from the character information. The extraction unit extracts the first character or the first character string and the second character or the second character string that are registered as the respective extraction targets.

An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates, in a case where a small-sheet image in a first image is unsuccessfully extracted and results in multiple small-sheet images, a second image including the small-sheet images that are combined.

Image processing apparatuses and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing device includes: an obtaining unit that obtains image information of a second region to detect an erecting direction of an image formed on a document, the second region being defined in the image in advance according to a criterion different from a criterion for defining a first region in the image, in which character recognition is performed; and an output unit that outputs character information of the first region, the character information being recognized in accordance with the erecting direction of the image obtained from the image information.

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Shintaro Adachi