Abstract: A computer device for data redaction application, the device includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a data processing platform; a memory unit configured to store metadata comprising redaction information received from the data processing platform and document data; a preview generator configured to generate from the metadata and the document data a preview image indicating redactions to be applied to the document; a display controller configured to transmit the preview image to a display; and a metadata modification unit configured to modify the redaction information in response to a user action and to cause the preview generator to generate a modified preview image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recoding medium based on document data includes a memory that stores a program and a processor that executes the program stored in the memory to perform a process. The process includes determining an occurrence of an error made by the image forming apparatus or a user of the image forming apparatus, determining whether the document data is confidential, deciding on one or more actions to be performed based on the error and whether the document data is confidential, and implementing the decided one or more actions.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method allows text data extracted from a scanned document by OCR to be converted into speech data such that the size of the speech data is equal to or lower than a predetermined speech data size limit. The method includes obtaining a predetermined speech data size limit; determining whether or not converting the text data into speech data will produce speech data with a size greater than the speech data size limit; and converting the text data into speech data such that the size of the speech data is equal to or lower than the speech data size limit. The speech data, optionally with at least one of the scanned document image and the text data, is then transmitted to a particular location.