Abstract: Disclosed is an image reading apparatus which reads a document placed on a reading unit including a display input unit including a first display unit which displays information and an input unit to accept an input operation with respect to the first display unit; a document holder which sandwiches the document with the reading unit, a support which supports the document holder so as to rotate so that a facing state of the document holder with respect to the reading unit is switchable and a second display unit which includes a surface of the document holder which faces the reading unit and the second display unit carries out a display in the surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an electronic pen at least includes a communication section for obtaining, from the electronic pen, electronic pen data including multiple pieces of position information obtained by detecting a position detection mark printed on a hand-writing sheet by the use of the electronic pen; a language analysis section for analyzing the electronic pen data, identifies one or more hand-written images defined by the multiple pieces of position information, and creates intermediate data that defines the arrangement of objects including respective hand-written images; an image processing section for rasterizing the intermediate data to create bitmap data; and a printing section for conducting printing based on the bitmap data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an electronic pen at least includes a communication section for obtaining, from the electronic pen, electronic pen data including multiple pieces of position information obtained by detecting a position detection mark printed on a hand-writing sheet by the use of the electronic pen; a language analysis section for analyzing the electronic pen data, identifies one or more hand-written images defined by the multiple pieces of position information, and creates intermediate data that defines the arrangement of objects including respective hand-written images; an image processing section for rasterizing the intermediate data to create bitmap data; and a printing section for conducting printing based on the bitmap data.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image reading apparatus which reads a document placed on a reading unit including a display input unit including a first display unit which displays information and an input unit to accept an input operation with respect to the first display unit; a document holder which sandwiches the document with the reading unit, a support which supports the document holder so as to rotate so that a facing state of the document holder with respect to the reading unit is switchable and a second display unit which includes a surface of the document holder which faces the reading unit and the second display unit carries out a display in the surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image acquisition section which acquires a color image; a memory section which stores a first table correlating a specific color with a symbol indicating the specific color; a color discrimination section which discriminates a color on the basis of color information of each portion in the color image, and extracts an area having the specific color; a symbol composition section which specifies the symbol corresponding to the specific color by reference to the first table, and composes the specified symbol into the area having the specific color in the color image to generate a composite color image; and an image output section which outputs the composite color image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing program and an image processing method for forming a composite image by superimposing an overlay image on a base image. When all the CMYK planes in a block of the overlay image have a gray level of 0, the gray levels of all the CMYK planes are set to 0 for the corresponding block. When at least one of the CMYK planes in a block of the overlay image has a gray level not less than 1, the gray level of the other planes, which are 0, are set to an invisible gray level for the corresponding block, and the gray level of the plane, which is not less than 1, is kept for the corresponding block.