IMAGING APPARATUS, CHARACTER INFORMATION ASSOCIATION METHOD AND CHARACTER INFORMATION ASSOCIATION PROGRAM

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and output an imaged picture; a picture recording unit configured to record pictures; a playback unit configured to play back a recorded picture recorded in the picture recording unit; a character information detection unit configured to detect character information from the imaged picture outputted by the imaging unit; a display control unit configured to display the recorded picture played back by the playback unit and the imaged picture outputted from the imaging unit on the same screen; and a character information association unit configured to associate character information detected from the imaged picture displayed on the screen by the character information detection unit with the recorded picture displayed on the same screen.