BUSINESS FORM PROCESSING DEVICE, BUSINESS FORM PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a business form processing device, a business form processing system and a program that are capable of recognizing information entered in a business form even when the information is entered outside a reading area of the business form.SOLUTION: A business form processing device comprises: generation means 340 for generating difference image data between first image data of a business form having no information entered in a prescribed reading area, and second image data of a business form having information entered in the reading area; extraction means 341 for, when a difference is present at a boundary of the reading area of the difference image data and the difference is continuously present over the inside of the reading area to the outside thereof, extracting from the difference image data, as an extraction area, the area where the difference is continuously present outside the reading area; and recognition means 343 for recognizing the information entered in the reading area and the extraction area.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】帳票の読取領域から食み出して情報が記入されても、帳票に記入された情報を認識することができる帳票処理装置、帳票処理システム及びプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】帳票処理装置は、予め定められた読取領域に情報が未記入の第１の帳票画像データと読取領域に情報が記入済みの第２の帳票画像データとの差分画像データを生成する生成手段３４０と、差分画像データの読取領域の境界部に差分が存在し、差分が読取領域の内側から外側に渡って連続的に存在しているとき、差分が読取領域の外側に連続的に存在する領域を抽出領域として差分画像データから抽出する抽出手段３４１と、読取領域及び抽出領域に記入された情報を認識する認識手段３４３とを備える。【選択図】図１