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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tetsuo Fujisawa, Urawa, JP;
Takako Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382100 ; 395753 ; 395760 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus operable with digital image data and capable of outputting equivalents of words spelled in a foreign language. Characters are recognized out of image data optically read out of a document image by a scanner or image data received over a subscriber line. Words are separated from the sequences of recognized characters. The equivalent of each word is searched for and then outputted together with the matching word. Paragraphs are separated from the image data and provided with serial paragraph numbers. The paragraph numbers are added to the image data before the generation of an image.