1. An image processing apparatus comprising: compressed-feature extracting means for extracting a compressed feature from image data, the compressed feature being a feature having a less amount of data than the image data; display controlling means for displaying the compressed feature; processing-information determining means for determining processing that is to be executed on the image data and outputting processing information representing the processing; and recording means for recording the processing information on a recording medium in association with a processing feature, the processing feature being a specific feature of the image data on which the processing represented by the processing information is to be executed.