1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a reading means for reading an image in an original; a character recognizing means for recognizing a character in the image read by said reading means; a storing means for storing a character font; a readout means for reading the character font from said storing means in response to a result of recognition obtained by said character recognizing means; a detecting means for detecting information concerning the character in the image read by said reading means; and a generating means for generating a reproduced image based on the character font read by said readout means and the information concerning the character detected by said detecting means.