Abstract: In a system in which a client, a plurality of output devices, and a server are connected via a network, it is an object to enable a device driver to be installed into the server by a remote operation of the client and eliminate troublesomeness upon setting of a construction of a port. A Web server has a port constructing unit and a driver installing unit which operate in response to a remote instruction from the client and its construction is realized by making those units operative under the local system authority.

Abstract: A plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by binarizing the form image by using a plurality of binarizing threshold values for improving a recognition rate of the search form irrespective of a state of the inputted form image, and format data are generated respectively from the plurality of binary images. If the inputted form image is a binary image, after the binary image has been converted into a multi-valued image by a vignetting filter, a plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by executing the binarizing processing by use of the plurality of binarizing threshold values respectively, thereby generating the format data respectively from the plurality of binary images.

Abstract: Attributes can be set for an entire document, each chapter, and each page by using an entire document attribute, chapter attribute, and page attribute. When the print format of a chapter is set with a chapter attribute different from the entire document attribute, this chapter is printed in a print format complying with the chapter attribute. Similarly, when the print format of a page is set with a page attribute different from the entire document attribute or chapter attribute, this page is printed in the print format complying with the page attribute. In hierarchically displaying the document structure with a book, chapters, and pages, a predetermined icon is so added as to identify a chapter or page having a unique attribute.

Abstract: To provide a document format identification apparatus capable of correctly identifying a document format even in an environment where a number of types of scanners are used. The document format identification apparatus includes: an extraction unit for extracting a feature for a document the format of which to be identified; a generation unit for generating, based on the feature extracted by the extraction unit, document format data containing identification data for identifying a document format and correction information for correcting a feature difference produced by a difference in type of the image input apparatus; and an identification unit, for correcting document format data stored in a storage unit and document format data generated by the generation unit based on the correction information and for identifying a document format of a document to be identified by comparing the corrected document format data.

Abstract: In a system in which a client, a plurality of output devices, and a server are connected via a network, it is an object to enable a device driver to be installed into the server by a remote operation of the client and eliminate troublesomeness upon setting of a construction of a port. A Web server has a port constructing unit and a driver installing unit which operate in response to a remote instruction from the client and its construction is realized by making those units operative under the local system authority.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which prints a chapter name on the tab of an index sheet stores document information as a document file including at least pieces of information about a chapter and a page included in the chapter. The information processing apparatus sets and stores information about an index sheet to be inserted between predetermined pages of the stored document information. The information processing apparatus sets and registers a format including the character font, style, size, and color of a character string to be printed on the tab of the index sheet. The information processing apparatus performs printing on each page included in the document information and on the tabbed index sheet on the basis of the document information stored in the document file, the information about the insertion paper sheet, and the set/registered tab format.

Abstract: Attributes can be set for an entire document, each chapter, and each page by using an entire document attribute, chapter attribute, and page attribute. When the print format of a chapter is set with a chapter attribute different from the entire document attribute, this chapter is printed in a print format complying with the chapter attribute. Similarly, when the print format of a page is set with a page attribute different from the entire document attribute or chapter attribute, this page is printed in the print format complying with the page attribute. In hierarchically displaying the document structure with a book, chapters, and pages, a predetermined icon is so added as to identify a chapter or page having a unique attribute.

Abstract: A plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by binarizing the form image by using a plurality of binarizing threshold values for improving a recognition rate of the search form irrespective of a state of the inputted form image, and format data are generated respectively from the plurality of binary images. If the inputted form image is a binary image, after the binary image has been converted into a multi-valued image by a vignetting filter, a plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by executing the binarizing processing by use of the plurality of binarizing threshold values respectively, thereby generating the format data respectively from the plurality of binary images.

Abstract: To provide a document format identification apparatus capable of correctly identifying a document format even in an environment where a number of types of scanners are used. The document format identification apparatus includes: an extraction unit for extracting a feature for a document the format of which to be identified; a generation unit for generating, based on the feature extracted by the extraction unit, document format data containing identification data for identifying a document format and correction information for correcting a feature difference produced by a difference in type of the image input apparatus; and an identification unit, for correcting document format data stored in a storage unit and document format data generated by the generation unit based on the correction information and for identifying a document format of a document to be identified by comparing the corrected document format data.