Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an authentication application device that registers information acquired from an authentication system, and indicating a normal application accessible by a user when the user logs in in the image forming apparatus, in temporary user information, and a normal application device that decides, upon being requested to activate itself, whether the user who has logged in in the image forming apparatus is authorized to utilize the normal application device, on a basis of the temporary user information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a job execution device that executes jobs, an aggregated data generator that generates aggregated data indicating an aggregated result of a quantity for each type of job executed by the job execution device, and an aggregated data transmitter that transmits the aggregated data generated by the aggregated data generator to a charge amount calculation system, in which, in a case where the unit price of the job is changed, the aggregated data generator separately generates the aggregated data of the job before the change of the unit price and the aggregated data after the change of the unit price and stores the unit price corresponding to the generated aggregated data, and the aggregated data transmitter associates the aggregated data with the unit price corresponding to this aggregated data and transmits the association result to the charge amount calculation system.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus being capable of communicating via facsimile, includes a second controller circuit that receives image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, from the image forming apparatus via the network, and determines a storage area to store the image data based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the facsimile transmission information and/or based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the additional information.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: an SNS server apparatus configured to be connected to a network and store one or more messages submitted to an SNS from a terminal apparatus; and a client apparatus configured to be connected to the network via a firewall and capable of communicating with the SNS server apparatus, the client apparatus being configured to receive, from the SNS server apparatus, one or more messages submitted to a channel, to which the client apparatus logs in, of the SNS, extract, from the one or more messages, a message including a control command to the client apparatus, and execute processing in accordance with the control command.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: an SNS server apparatus configured to be connected to a network and store one or more messages submitted to an SNS from a terminal apparatus; and a client apparatus configured to be connected to the network via a firewall and capable of communicating with the SNS server apparatus, the client apparatus being configured to receive, from the SNS server apparatus, one or more messages submitted to a channel, to which the client apparatus logs in, of the SNS, extract, from the one or more messages, a message including a control command to the client apparatus, and execute processing in accordance with the control command.

Abstract: An output system includes an output section, a fee calculation section, and a payment code notification section. The output section outputs an image and/or a document. The fee calculation section calculates a fee necessary for outputting the image and/or the document in accordance with a specific standard. The payment code notification section notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service for the fee calculated by the fee calculation section. The output section outputs the image and/or the document when the fee has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus being capable of communicating via facsimile, includes a second controller circuit that receives image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, from the image forming apparatus via the network, and determines a storage area to store the image data based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the facsimile transmission information and/or based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the additional information.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an image reading section, a marker detection section, and a processing section. The marker detection section analyzes image data and detects a first marker portion indicated in the image data and a second marker portion indicated in the image data in a mode different from a mode of the first marker, and also extracts texts indicated in the first marker portion and the second marker portion. The processing section performs processing of transmitting the image data where the text indicated in the first marker portion is defined as a file name of the image data and the text indicated in the second marker portion is defined as a transmission address to which the image data is transmitted.

Abstract: A job executing system includes an image forming apparatus, a user terminal, a computer, and a bank account management system. The online payment service transmits a payment completion notification of a charge and a payment code to the computer with the computer identifier made to correspond to the payment code in first payment code management information. When the computer receives the payment completion notification, the computer transmits the payment completion notification of the charge for the job with the job identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus having the image forming apparatus identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information. When the image forming apparatus receives the payment completion notification, the image forming apparatus executes the job with the job identifier.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an image reading section, a marker detection section, and a processing section. The marker detection section analyzes image data and detects a first marker portion indicated in the image data and a second marker portion indicated in the image data in a mode different from a mode of the first marker, and also extracts texts indicated in the first marker portion and the second marker portion. The processing section performs processing of transmitting the image data where the text indicated in the first marker portion is defined as a file name of the image data and the text indicated in the second marker portion is defined as a transmission address to which the image data is transmitted.

Abstract: Provided are: an acquisition section that acquires image data; a detection section that detects a marker portion indicated in the image data; a communication section that performs communication with either one or a plurality of external servers including at least one of a plurality of dictionary functions; a processing section that (i) specifies, from the dictionary functions, a dictionary function in accordance with a type of the marker portion, and (ii) causes the communication section to transmit, to the external server including the specified dictionary function, an instruction to search for a text indicated by the marker portion, and for information related to the text, by using the dictionary function; and a generation section that generates a glossary including the received information related to the text upon reception of the information related to the text as a search result from the external server by the communication section.

Abstract: A document printing system includes an image forming apparatus, a print-data generating unit, a charge calculator, and a payment code notification unit. The image forming apparatus includes a print device and a document accepting unit that accepts a document. The print-data generating unit generates print data of the document accepted by the document accepting unit. The charge calculator calculates a charge based on the document accepted by the document accepting unit. The payment code notification unit notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service to the charge calculated by the charge calculator. The image forming apparatus includes a document printing unit that executes a print job with the print device based on the print data when the charge has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification unit.

Abstract: A document printing system includes an image forming apparatus, a print data management unit, a charge calculator, and a payment code notification unit. The image forming apparatus includes a print device and a driver installer. The driver installer installs a printer driver onto an external electronic device. The charge calculator calculates a charge based on the print data managed by the print data management unit. The payment code notification unit notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service to the charge calculated by the charge calculator. The image forming apparatus includes a document printing unit that executes a print job with the print device based on the print data managed by the print data management unit when the charge has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification unit.

Abstract: A document printing system includes an image forming apparatus, an electronic device, a print-data generating unit, a charge calculator, and a payment code notification unit. The image forming apparatus includes a document accepting unit that accepts a document via a web page. The charge calculator calculates a charge based on the document accepted by the document accepting unit. The payment code notification unit notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service to the charge. The image forming apparatus includes a document printing unit that executes a print job with the print device based on the print data when the charge has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification unit. The electronic device includes a document transmitting application to transmit the document. The web browser transmits the document to the image forming apparatus via the document transmitting application.

Abstract: A screen display apparatus includes a display device, a display control unit, and a display data obtaining unit. The display data obtaining unit executes a sequence of processes from a request of the display data to a source to obtaining of the display data from the source for a plurality of items of the display data without performing parallel process. The display data obtaining unit continuously executes obtaining of the display data for each of a plurality of the screens in a group in sequence until the obtaining of the display data for every screen in the group is completed when the obtaining of the display data for the screen in the group is started.

Abstract: An output system includes an output section, a fee calculation section, and a payment code notification section. The output section outputs an image and/or a document. The fee calculation section calculates a fee necessary for outputting the image and/or the document in accordance with a specific standard. The payment code notification section notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service for the fee calculated by the fee calculation section. The output section outputs the image and/or the document when the fee has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification section.

Abstract: A job executing system includes an image forming apparatus, a user terminal, a computer, and a bank account management system. The online payment service transmits a payment completion notification of a charge and a payment code to the computer with the computer identifier made to correspond to the payment code in first payment code management information. When the computer receives the payment completion notification, the computer transmits the payment completion notification of the charge for the job with the job identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus having the image forming apparatus identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information. When the image forming apparatus receives the payment completion notification, the image forming apparatus executes the job with the job identifier.

Abstract: Provided are: an acquisition section that acquires image data; a detection section that detects a marker portion indicated in the image data; a communication section that performs communication with either one or a plurality of external servers including at least one of a plurality of dictionary functions; a processing section that (i) specifies, from the dictionary functions, a dictionary function in accordance with a type of the marker portion, and (ii) causes the communication section to transmit, to the external server including the specified dictionary function, an instruction to search for a text indicated by the marker portion, and for information related to the text, by using the dictionary function; and a generation section that generates a glossary including the received information related to the text upon reception of the information related to the text as a search result from the external server by the communication section.

Abstract: A learning support device includes a storage portion which stores the images of model characters, an image reading portion which reads a practice sheet to generate image data, a determination portion which extracts, as an image of a determination target character, an image of a handwritten character present within the image data on the practice sheet, which acquires, from the storage portion, the image of the model character and which compares the image of the model character with the image of the determination target character so as to perform a pass/fail determination, a generation portion which generates image data on a report that includes result information indicating the result of the pass/fail determination and an output portion which outputs the report including the result information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition section, a marker detecting section, a text extracting section, and a markup language processing section. The marker detecting section detects, based on the image data acquired by the acquisition section, a marker assigned to an original document. The text extracting section analyzes the image data to recognize and extract a text in the original document. The markup language processing section generates markup data in which the text in the image data has the same display color as the marker.