Abstract: An attendance request acceptance step includes accepting an event attendance request, by displaying an attendance request entry screen having scheduling tables of register type with request selection boxes of persons requested to attend, in response to access from a user, and a schedule writing step includes writing the contents of the event in each of the scheduling tables of the persons requested to attend. A notification step includes informing the persons requested to attend of an event attendance request, by sending e-mail. A reply acceptance step includes accepting a reply of the attendance requested persons to the event attendance request, and writing the result of the reply in each of the scheduling tables of the persons requested to attend.

Abstract: A character reader recognizes characters by scanning them in lines corresponding to line marks, after detecting the line marks. The line marks are recorded corresponding to lines on a sheet where characters are recorded. Only a character detection signal related to a scanning signal within the domain determined by the line mark is extracted from scanning signals of the recorded characters.