An information processing apparatus acquires an image obtained by photographing a part of the subject, specifies a relative position which part of the subject is photographed to obtain the image, determines a specific area included in the obtained image based on the specified relative position, and calculates an edge amount of the specific area. Then, in a case where the calculated edge amount in the specific area is larger than a first threshold, a character recognition processing is performed on the specific area included in the acquired image.