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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A document image processing apparatus has the following construction in order to draw a manually input line portion along a desired character string in a document image in good style and high operability. More specifically, the image data of a document read by a scanner is displayed at a display portion. At this time, when the user operates a tablet to manually draw a line portion along a desired character string in the displayed document, a row region along which the manually input line portion is drawn is extracted from the region of the document image by a row extracting portion based on positional information represented by the input data of the manually drawn line portion and the document image data. The manually drawn line portion is corrected into a straight line along the extracted row region for display by curve correcting portion.