A reference comparison image obtained from a printed material is input. The grayscale feature amount of the reference comparison image is extracted. Using the extracted grayscale feature amount, a target comparison image corresponding to the reference comparison image is retrieved from a plurality of electronic data stored as target comparison images in a storage medium. The retrieved image is extracted from the storage medium and processed.

 
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