To provide a technique of performing translation while determining a target language without a user's inputting of the target language.
A control part 11 of a multifunction machine 1, when detecting the input of a translation instruction, controls an image reading part 13 to read a positioned document and particular image and generate image data representing the contents of the document and particular image. The image data of a character area and the image data of the particular image area are segmented, text data is generated from the document area image data, and the language is identified. The control part 11 then matches image data of the particular image area against matching image data stored in a matching image table TBL to identify a target language according to the matching degrees. The control part 11 determines that the text data language is a source language and the language identified by the particular image data is a target language, and translates the text data from the source language into the target language.
TANAKA KEI
NAKAMURA KOTARO
NAGAO TAKASHI
SAKAKIBARA MASAYOSHI
HO SHINU
SAITO TERUKA
KOYAMA TOSHIYA
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