An image reading apparatus includes an imaging device, a first communication device capable of communicating at a first communication speed according to a first communication protocol, a second communication device capable of communicating at a second communication speed lower than the first communication speed according to a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, a first processor to separately transmit a first image acquired by imaging a first surface of a medium by the imaging device, and a second image acquired by imaging a second surface of the medium by the imaging device, via the first communication device, and a second processor to transmit a combined image acquired by combining the first image and the second image via the second communication device.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive designation of a person capable of stamping on plural stamping areas in a document having the plural stamping areas, and present a stamping area that is capable of being stamped by a printer who performs printing to the printer as a different state from states of other stamping areas in a case where the document is printed and a condition is satisfied, in which the printer is a person capable of stamping on at least one of the plural stamping areas and a corresponding stamping area is before a stamping work by another person capable of stamping, and not present the stamping area in a case where the condition is not satisfied.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive designation of a person capable of stamping on plural stamping areas in a document having the plural stamping areas, and present a stamping area that is capable of being stamped by a printer who performs printing to the printer as a different state from states of other stamping areas in a case where the document is printed and a condition is satisfied, in which the printer is a person capable of stamping on at least one of the plural stamping areas and a corresponding stamping area is before a stamping work by another person capable of stamping, and not present the stamping area in a case where the condition is not satisfied.

This disclosure provides an image processing apparatus that is connected to a printing apparatus, sequentially receives a plurality of recording media on which printing was performed by the printing apparatus, and inspects a quality of images formed on the recording media, wherein the image processing apparatus receives a reference image, acquires a plurality of scanned images by sequentially scanning the recording media output from the printing apparatus and having the images to be inspected recorded thereon, receives phase information of an image bearing member of the printing apparatus, detects, for each of the scanned images, a defect on the scanned image by comparing a pixel value of the reference image and a pixel value of the scanned image, and determines whether a defect has reproducibility based on positions of defects on the recording media calculated from the phase information.

A digital camera processing system with software to manage taking photos with a digital camera. Camera software controls the digital camera. A downloaded software component controls the digital camera software and causes a handheld mobile device to perform operations. The operations may include instructing a user to have the digital camera take photos of a check; displaying an instruction on a display of the handheld mobile device to assist the user in having the digital camera take the photos; or assisting the user as to an orientation for taking the photos with the digital camera. The digital camera processing system may generate a log file including a bi-tonal image formatted as a TIFF image.

A method for evaluating a print quality of a printed document that is printed by a printer is provided. The printer comprises a pre-print image scanner, a post-print image scanner, and a printhead disposed between the pre-print image scanner and the post-print image scanner. The method comprises generating a pre-printing image of a print media, generating the printed document, generating a post-printing image of the printed document, generating a validation image by comparing the post-printing image with the pre-printing image, and comparing the validation image with the source image.

While an operation of changing a non-position attribute value for a first object (an operation-target object) is being performed, an information processing method of the present disclosure extracts a non-position attribute value for a second object different from the first object and of the same attribute as the non-position attribute value being changed. Then, it is determined whether the current value of the non-position attribute value being changed is a value within a range predefined based on the non-position attribute value for the second object. In a case where the non-position attribute value for the first object is to be changed in accordance with a change in operation position corresponding to operation information, the current value is changed to the non-position attribute value for the second object if determined to be a value within the range predefined based on the non-position attribute value for the second object.

An object of the present disclosure is to improve convenience for a user to lay out image data by displaying a trimming region when necessary. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to function as a display control unit capable of displaying a screen having a first region in which to place an object and a second region surrounding the first region, and configured to switch to displaying or to hiding the second region in the screen according to a setting indicating whether to display or hide the second region, wherein even in a case where the setting indicates hiding the second region, the display control unit displays the second region based on a position of the object in the first region.

This disclosure provides an image processing apparatus that is connected to a printing apparatus, sequentially receives a plurality of recording media on which printing was performed by the printing apparatus, and inspects a quality of images formed on the recording media, wherein the image processing apparatus receives a reference image, acquires a plurality of scanned images by sequentially scanning the recording media output from the printing apparatus and having the images to be inspected recorded thereon, receives phase information of an image bearing member of the printing apparatus, detects, for each of the scanned images, a defect on the scanned image by comparing a pixel value of the reference image and a pixel value of the scanned image, and determines whether a defect has reproducibility based on positions of defects on the recording media calculated from the phase information.

Provided is an inspection system that can inspect variable printing in production printing with a plurality of apparatuses. This system is the inspection system that includes a design apparatus and an inspection apparatus for production printing. The design unit designs variable print data. The correct answer generation unit generates correct answer data for inspection when the variable print data is created by the design unit. The correct answer change unit acquires the processing information at the time of prepress and reflects it in the correct answer data generated by the correct answer generating unit. The output unit outputs the correct answer data changed by the correct answer change unit. The inspection unit inspects the printed matter based on the correct answer data generated by the design apparatus.