BLOCK SELECTION-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING

An image processing system includes input of image data, performance of block selection processing on the input image data to determine types of pixel data within the image data, a first determining step of determining, based on the block selection processing, if subject pixel data represents a text pixel, a second determining step of determining if the subject pixel data represents an edge pixel, performance of a first processing on the subject pixel data in a case that the subject pixel data is determined to represent a text pixel and an edge pixel, and performance of a second processing on the subject pixel data in a case that the subject pixel data is not determined to represent a text pixel and is not determined to represent an edge pixel.