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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2010
Tetsuomi Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Tetsuomi Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for document conversion that are capable of facilitating conversion of document image data to an electronic document having table of contents data even with a limited storage resource. The document image analysis sectionextracts character regions from a document image. The contents/index/footer conversion sectiongenerates table of contents data based on the extracted character regions and page numbers of the character regions. An electronic document having a table of contents is generated based on the document imageand the generated table of contents data. Link information is added to respective ones of items in the generated table of contents data for linking the items in the generated table of contents data with corresponding positions in the electronic document in which the items are described.