Abstract: In an image processing system, a controller of an image forming apparatus, when user identification information is entered, causes a communication device to transmit a transmission request for an encryption code to a mobile terminal device at which the user identification information has been set, and, when the communication device receives the encryption code, uses the encryption code to encrypt image data. A controller of the mobile terminal device, when a communication device receives the transmission request for the encryption code, converts a fingerprint of a user detected by a fingerprint sensor into the encryption code, and causes the communication device to transmit the encryption code to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading device that optically reads a document to obtain image data; a character recognizer that recognizes a character pattern included in the image data as a character; a character estimator that, for the character pattern that the character recognizer failed to recognize, from characters, which precede and follow the character pattern and have been recognized by the character recognizer, estimates, in accordance with a grammar rule, a character that the character pattern indicates; and an image data reconfigurer that arranges each character recognized by the character recognizer and each character estimated by the character estimator in an order same as an arrangement order of each character pattern included in the image data to generate reconfigured image data.

Abstract: In an image processing system, a controller of an image forming apparatus, when user identification information is entered, causes a communication device to transmit a transmission request for an encryption code to a mobile terminal device at which the user identification information has been set, and, when the communication device receives the encryption code, uses the encryption code to encrypt image data. A controller of the mobile terminal device, when a communication device receives the transmission request for the encryption code, converts a fingerprint of a user detected by a fingerprint sensor into the encryption code, and causes the communication device to transmit the encryption code to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading device that optically reads a document to obtain image data; a character recognizer that recognizes a character pattern included in the image data as a character; a character estimator that, for the character pattern that the character recognizer failed to recognize, from characters, which precede and follow the character pattern and have been recognized by the character recognizer, estimates, in accordance with a grammar rule, a character that the character pattern indicates; and an image data reconfigurer that arranges each character recognized by the character recognizer and each character estimated by the character estimator in an order same as an arrangement order of each character pattern included in the image data to generate reconfigured image data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording paper sheet; a storage unit; a display; a touch panel provided on a screen of the display; and a control unit including a processor. When the processor executes a control program, the control unit functions as: a recognition section that, upon performance of a slide gesture on the touch panel, recognizes a number represented by the slide gesture detected by the touch panel and determines a size of the number; and a control section that sets, among a plurality of printing conditions previously stored in the storage unit, a printing condition corresponding to the size of the number determined by the recognition section and allows the image forming unit to form an image under the set printing condition on the same number of recording paper sheets as indicated by the recognized number.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a different apparatus detecting section that detects one or more different image forming apparatuses present on a network; an apparatus capability acquisition section that acquires printing capabilities of the different image forming apparatuses; an apparatus selecting section that selects, based on the acquired printing capabilities, at least one different image forming apparatus having a printing capability equivalent to or higher than the present image forming apparatus as an alternative apparatus; a control section that executes a print job; and a print job transfer sections that, when the control section cannot execute the print job, transfers the print job to the alternative apparatus, wherein when the print job transfer section completes the transfer of the print job to the alternative apparatus, the control section allows a display section to display information indicating that the print job has been transferred and a destination for the transfer.