Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage device and a control device. The storage device stores a document. The control device includes a processor and functions, through the processor executing a control program, as a character recognizer and a tag generator. The character recognizer analyzes the document stored in the storage device and recognizes characters contained in the document. The tag generator analyzes, based on a recognition result of the character recognizer, a sequence of characters contained in the document and generates a tag expressing a feature of descriptive content of the document.

Abstract: A method for printing a document with user-defined boundaries is disclosed. For example, a method is executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) and includes receiving a user-defined boundary of a document that excludes a portion of at least one page, identifying content within the user-defined boundary, generating an MFD job with the content, and executing the MFD job.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains data of a reference image indicating a target of printing output to be performed by a printing apparatus. A second obtaining unit obtains data of an image printed by the printing apparatus. A correcting unit corrects a local image density difference or the reference image based on a global image density difference between the reference image and the printed image. An evaluating unit evaluates quality of the printed image based on the local image density difference between the corrected reference image and the printed image.

Abstract: The invention comprises an apparatus and method of use thereof for processing a machine produced emulated handwritten document prepared on a marking surface, comprising the steps of: receiving a print job order; digitally generating a reference image of the print job order; machine plotting with a plotting pen and a downward force of one-half to forty ounces applied to said plotting pen an indentation trail to form input text on the marking surface; digitally imaging the input text on the marking surface to form an actual image; and in a quality control step, digitally comparing the reference image to the actual image prior to insertion of the print job order into an envelope.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores log data generated by an execution of a process. The processing circuity stops the execution of the process in a state where the process is being executed and when an amount of the log data in the memory is larger than a first threshold, and restarts the execution of the process in a state where the execution of the process is stopped and when the amount of the log data in the memory is smaller than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to one or more image forming apparatuses each including: an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium; an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data; and an image forming controller that executes a first inspection and detects in the read image data an image defect corresponding to a predetermined inspection item at a first cycle, the information processing apparatus including: a processing controller that: acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and executes a second inspection to inspect the inspection source data.

Abstract: A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for better ensuring that the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing indicia on a document protected by a removable Scratch-Off Coating (SOC). By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved relative to the perception of human eye photoreceptor cones. The redundantly printed document, methods, and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.

Abstract: A prescribed program causes a computer to display a first display region to execute printing by using a first color adopting an ordinary color ink being an ink of a process color and a specific color ink being an ink of a color other than the process color, and a second display region being different from the first display region to execute printing by using a second color being different from the first color and adopting at least the specific color ink.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a designated area acquisition device that acquires information related to an area designated in a recording medium, wherein when trial printing is instructed, a read image of an image printed on the recording medium in the trial printing and an image of the area generated on the basis of the information related to the area acquired by the designated area acquisition device are combined.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores a colorimetric value of a gradation correction chart and environmental information each time of acquisition of the colorimetric value. The circuitry predicts an output characteristic of an image formed by the image forming apparatus based on the colorimetric value associated with particular environmental information among the environmental information stored in the memory, the particular environmental information being within a predetermined range with reference to current environmental information, when the image forming apparatus is to output the gradation correction chart. The circuitry adjusts the output characteristic of the image in a case that the predicted output characteristic is lower than a target output characteristic. The circuitry corrects a gradation correction table based on the colorimetric value of the gradation correction chart and the target output characteristic.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus acquires colorimetric values from a patch of a target color with metallicity, the colorimetric values being measured by a colorimeter, calculates two or more physical quantities including a metallic value indicating a degree of metallicity and a color value indicating a degree of color from the colorimetric values, determines priority of the physical quantities of the target color, and derives an amount of metallic colorant and an amount of process color colorant in an image forming apparatus from the two or more physical quantities according to the priority.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a plurality of functions includes: an accepting unit configured to accept selection of one environment from among a plurality of different environments as a use environment of the information processing apparatus; a first notification unit configured to provide a notification of a function which is at least one of the plurality of functions and for which a change in use occurs when a group of set values corresponding to the selected one environment is set in the information processing apparatus; a second notification unit configured to extract a set value related to the change in use from the group of set values and provide a notification of the set value; and a setting unit configured to perform batch setting for the information processing apparatus on the basis of the group of set values in response to an instruction for setting the group of set values.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image resulting from reading a recording medium where a diagnostic image to be used to diagnose an image forming apparatus is formed; acquire, from the read image, an image read portion of the recording medium from which the diagnostic image is read and one specific portion of a non-formation read portion, the non-formation read portion resulting from reading a non-formation portion of the recording medium where the diagnostic image is not formed; and output the image read portion and the one specific portion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus gives an update notification of a firmware of the image printing apparatus and an update notification of a printer driver necessary for the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus having a driver that causes the image printing apparatus to execute image printing, includes: a driver information obtaining unit configured to obtain information on firmware update of the image printing apparatus and information on a required version of the driver; an information analysis unit configured to compare a current version of the driver and the information on the required version obtained by the driver information obtaining unit; and a display controlling unit configured to display an update notification screen based on a result analyzed by the information analysis unit and the information on the firmware update obtained by the driver information obtaining unit.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image formed on a print medium; and a backing part that is disposed at a position facing the reader and is capable of switching a color of a portion to be a background of the print medium upon reading by the reader to a plurality of colors according to a type of the print medium and/or a color read from the print medium.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires N-valued image data corresponding to an image including at least one object, and edge data indicating an edge area of the object, an image processing unit that generates M-valued (N>M?2) quantized data where each of a plurality of pixels is associated with one of a value indicating that no dot is to be recorded and a value indicating that a dot is to be recorded, based on the acquired image data, using an image processing parameter, and a changing unit that changes at least one pixel among pixels that indicate the edge area of the object in the edge data and have the value indicating that no dot is to be recorded in the quantized data so that the at least one pixel has the value indicating that the dot is to be recorded.

Abstract: An image analyzer includes an in-use ink information determination section that determines an ink type to be used for printing and an ink quantity to be used for printing for the ink type as in-use ink information by using image data in accordance with conditions set in advance, a printed image quality information acquisition section that acquires at least one item of printed image quality information on image quality specified in advance and provided when the image data is printed by using the determined in-use ink information, and a display section that displays at least one of the in-use ink information and the printed image quality information.

Abstract: An optical line sensor 1 includes an illumination unit 2, a light receiving unit 3, and a pair of holding members 4 separably attached to the light receiving unit 3 at both ends in a main scanning direction. The illumination unit 2 includes fitting portions (protrusions 25) at both ends in the main scanning direction. Each of the holding members 4 includes a fitted portion (hole 41). In a state where the fitting portion and the fitted portion are fitted, the illumination unit 2 is positioned so that the irradiation optical axis of light emitted from the illumination unit 2 overlaps the light receiving optical axis at a position substantially coinciding with a reading line of the light receiving unit 3 and is integrally held with the light receiving unit 3.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a supporting program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to execute obtaining a print setting, generating a character string for displaying indicating at least a part of the obtained print setting, obtaining image data indicating the image of a selected print job, and transmitting the print job and the generated character string for displaying in a state in which the print job and the character string for displaying are associated with each other. The job name and the character string for displaying are displayed on a display of a connected printer in the state in which the job name and the character string for displaying are associated with each other.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a supporting program configured to support a printing program of an operating system of the information processing apparatus. A print queue for each of a plurality of printers is provided in the operating system. The printing program is capable of making a request to the supporting program for processing in a state in which the print queue for any one of the plurality of printers is selected. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to execute identifying a printer of the plurality of printers to which processing is requested, reading setting data into which a common setting value indicating a setting value of a print setting commonly used by the plurality of printers is written, and changing a setting value of the print setting of an identified printer based on the common setting value written into the read setting data.