An image processing system having an input controller, a file server, an image setter, and a work station, each of which includes a separate and independent CPU. These CPUs operate simultaneously to provide high speed image processing. This system allows a user to combine and interactively edit various types of information, such as characters, designs and images, when the information is displayed upon a work station. After a user interactively edits this image information, a composed final image is stored in memory. The system also eliminates pattern frames, representing contour border lines around segments of the image, by superimposing an eliminating frame upon the contour lines.