4. A method, performed by a device having a processor, for identifying image areas and text areas in a document, the method comprising: choosing a document background color based on the document; creating a condensed document from the document by omitting areas based at least in part on the chosen document background color; dividing the condensed document into a plurality of individual areas; for each of the individual areas, choosing an area background color based on the individual area; determining if the individual area contains image or text based at least in part on the chosen area background color; if the determination is that the individual area contains image, marking the individual area as an image area; and if the determination is that the individual area contains text, marking the individual area as a text area; if the determination that the individual area contains image or text is not made, performing an additional action; for at least a first individual area for which the determination that the first individual area contains image or text is not made, performing an additional action includes marking the first individual area as an image area; processing, by the device, individual areas marked as image areas with halftone processing; and processing, by the device, individual areas marked as text areas with line art processing.
4. A method, performed by a device having a processor, for identifying image areas and text areas in a document, the method comprising: choosing a document background color based on the document; creating a condensed document from the document by omitting areas based at least in part on the chosen document background color; dividing the condensed document into a plurality of individual areas; for each of the individual areas, choosing an area background color based on the individual area; determining if the individual area contains image or text based at least in part on the chosen area background color; if the determination is that the individual area contains image, marking the individual area as an image area; and if the determination is that the individual area contains text, marking the individual area as a text area; if the determination that the individual area contains image or text is not made, performing an additional action; for at least a first individual area for which the determination that the first individual area contains image or text is not made, performing an additional action includes marking the first individual area as an image area; processing, by the device, individual areas marked as image areas with halftone processing; and processing, by the device, individual areas marked as text areas with line art processing. 5. The method of claim 4 , wherein dividing the condensed document includes dividing the condensed document transversely and vertically into a plurality of individual areas, and the method further includes: for at least a second individual area for which the determination that the second individual area contains image or text is not made, performing an additional action includes: omitting sub-areas in the second individual area based at least in part on the chosen area background color to create a condensed area; dividing the condensed area into a plurality of individual sub-areas; and for each of the individual sub-areas, choosing a sub-area background color based on the individual sub-area, and identifying the individual sub-area as containing image or text based at least in part on the chosen sub-area background color.