Information processor, information processing method, and program therefor

TLDR: In this paper, the copying machine 1 specifies a character carrying portion in the image data outputted by the scanner, performs character recognition processing to generate 1st character information on the basis of recognized character data, and compares the 1st information with 2nd character information as information on characters included in a document to be controlled that is referred to from document management index data 18b, thereby deciding whether the document and the document having similar document contents.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor that can suitably restrain copying processing and FAX processing of various kinds of documents including general documents generated and used in an office, an information processing method and a program therefor. SOLUTION: A scanner 16 reads the document and outputs image data. A copying machine 1 specifies a character carrying portion in the image data outputted by the scanner, performs character recognition processing to generate 1st character information on the basis of recognized character data, and compares the 1st character information with 2nd character information as information on characters included in a document to be controlled that is referred to from document management index data 18b, thereby deciding whether the document and the document to be controlled have similar document contents. Then the copying machine 1 specifies a document to be controlled which have document contents similar to that of the document in accordance with the decision and refers to control information of the document to be controlled specified from the document management index data 18b to decide whether document processing in response to a request to process the document is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT