Abstract: A voice operation system includes: a processing device; and a receiver that receives a user's voice instruction given to the processing device, wherein the receiver includes: a voice recognizer that performs voice recognition of the voice instruction; and a notifier that, when the voice recognizer has partially failed in voice recognition of a portion of the voice instruction, notifies the processing device of an operation command corresponding to the portion of the voice instruction for which voice recognition has been successful, and the processing device includes a processor that performs processing corresponding to a command content of the operation command.

Abstract: A device for detecting an amount of skew in a document placed on a plate is provided. The device includes: a scanner for scanning an area including an edge of the document; a detector for detecting a boundary point between the document and the plate; a portion for setting a boundary point group of interest including boundary points; a portion for setting a midpoint of an oblique line for approximating the edge of the document; a portion for setting, as the oblique line, a line which passes through the midpoint and slants to the main scanning direction; a portion for modifying an amount of skew of the oblique line; and a portion for determining that an amount of skew in the document is an amount of skew of the oblique line having the error equal to a threshold or smaller.

Abstract: A device for detecting an amount of skew in a document placed on a plate is provided. The device includes: a scanner for scanning an area including an edge of the document; a detector for detecting a boundary point between the document and the plate; a portion for setting a boundary point group of interest including boundary points; a portion for setting a midpoint of an oblique line for approximating the edge of the document; a portion for setting, as the oblique line, a line which passes through the midpoint and slants to the main scanning direction; a portion for modifying an amount of skew of the oblique line; and a portion for determining that an amount of skew in the document is an amount of skew of the oblique line having the error equal to a threshold or smaller.

Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) is a file name producing apparatus that produces a file name of an image. The MFP selects a candidate character string, which is a file name candidate and in which a head character is a space, from the character strings extracted from the image. The MFP deletes the space that is the head character of the candidate character string, or changes all the characters constituting the candidate character string to other characters. The MFP produces the character string, which is corrected by the deletion or the change, as the file name of the image. Therefore, the proper file name can be produced.

Abstract: An electronic document generation system includes: an image forming apparatus configured to generate a scanned image of an original document; and an external terminal configured to receive image data of the scanned image from the image forming apparatus, and generate an electronic document based on the scanned image, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a divided data generation unit; a determination unit; and a communication unit, of the plurality of divided image data, the communication unit transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data at an earlier point in time, and transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined not to be the processing target data after the divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data are transmitted, and the external terminal includes: an obtaining unit; and a document generation unit.

Abstract: An electronic document generation system includes: an image forming apparatus configured to generate a scanned image of an original document; and an external terminal configured to receive image data of the scanned image from the image forming apparatus, and generate an electronic document based on the scanned image, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a divided data generation unit; a determination unit; and a communication unit, of the plurality of divided image data, the communication unit transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data at an earlier point in time, and transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined not to be the processing target data after the divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data are transmitted, and the external terminal includes: an obtaining unit; and a document generation unit.

Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) is a file name producing apparatus that produces a file name of an image. The MFP selects a candidate character string, which is a file name candidate and in which a head character is a space, from the character strings extracted from the image. The MFP deletes the space that is the head character of the candidate character string, or changes all the characters constituting the candidate character string to other characters. The MFP produces the character string, which is corrected by the deletion or the change, as the file name of the image. Therefore, the proper file name can be produced.