PURPOSE: To automatically extract and classify the areas of a character string, a graphic, a photograph, a picture, a line segment, and a noise in a picture by providing a rectangular area coordinate extracting part, a rectangular area characteristic extracting part, and a rectangular area classifying part.
CONSTITUTION: A rectangular area is extracted from the picture by a rectangular area coordinate extracting part 3, the characteristic of the extracted rectangular area is extracted by a rectangular area characteristic extracting part 4, and the extracted characteristic is compared with the characteristics of the character string, graphic, photograph, line segment and noise prepared beforehand, and to which of the character string, graphic, photograph, line segment or noise the rectangular area corresponds is decided by a rectangular area classifying part 5. By using the method, every one character is segmented and recognized by character recognizing technique, respectively inherent processings are executed for the graphic, photograph, line segment and noise areas, and thus the input picture can be more flexibly processed.
KONDO SHINJI
RIKU KOUEI
