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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Nobutaka Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a character recognition unit, and a display unit for a display according to a language which is set. The reading unit reads out a document and generates image data. The character recognition unit recognizes a character included in the image data in order to orient the image data upright. The display unit displays information specifying an orientation of the character in the document with respect to the reading unit, when the language which is set is a language which is not recognizable by the character recognition unit.