The tablet inspection support apparatus (11) includes: (i) a conveying unit (15) which conveys a medicine packaging sheet having a series of packets each of which encloses one or more tablets between two films; (ii) a transmitted-light illumination unit (17) which illuminates a packet from a side of one of the two films; (iii) a reflected-light illumination unit (16) which illuminates a packet from a side of the other of the two films; (iv) an imaging unit (18) which obtains, by capturing an image of a packet from a side of the other of the two films, a transmitted-light image that is an image of a packet illuminated by the transmitted-light illumination unit and a reflected-light image that is a color image of the packet illuminated by the reflected-light illumination unit; (v) an image processing unit (19) which detects a tablet region indicating a region of one or more tablets enclosed in a packet by using the transmitted-light image and generates a color tablet image by clipping an image of a region of the reflected-light image corresponding to the tablet region; and (vi) a display unit (20) which displays the tablet image generated by the image processing unit (19).