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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1995
Kiyohisa Sugishima, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is intended to cope with a case where a document image received through a communication line is written in a language of a different country in such a manner that translation is directly performed on the basis of received information, omitting intermediate processes in order to improve the translation efficiency and to prevent waste of recording paper. Therefore, if English image information has been facsimile-received, character recognition is performed on the basis of the received image. The translation is performed in accordance with a text consisting of recognized character data so that (for example) a Japanese text data is prepared. Then, a Japanese document image on the basis of the Japanese text data is produced, the Japanese document image being then output through a printer.