A printing system includes: a first printing unit that performs printing on a medium on the basis of first printing data; a first inventing unit that is located downstream from the first printing unit in a transportation direction specific to the medium and performs an inverting operation that is an operation of inverting front and back sides of the medium; a second printing unit that is located downstream from the first inverting unit in the transportation direction and performs printing on the medium on the basis of second printing data; and a control unit that determines whether the first inverting unit needs to perform the inverting operation, on the basis of whether the second printing data indicates a printing page for the front or back side of the medium.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes, a sheet transporting unit, a scanner, a print unit, an input device, a counter, and a control unit. The sheet transporting unit transports a predetermined number of sheets among a plurality of the sheets. The scanner reads the sheets which are transported by the sheet transporting unit as image data. The print unit prints the image data which is read by the scanner. The input device receives an input from a user. The counter counts the number of the transported sheets. The control unit controls the sheet transporting unit and the print unit depending on the number of the transported sheets and the number of sheets which are input by the user.

A method for automatically running a command from a note sheet detachably attached to a document includes scanning the document with the note sheet, automatically detaching the note sheet from the document, scanning the note sheet separately from the note-sheet-detached document and, recognizing text written on the scanned note sheet, extracting one or more commands from a database corresponding to the recognized text, and automatically running the one or more commands for executing one or more corresponding image-processing jobs on the note-sheet-detached document.

Method and systems of automated document processing described herein include activating in sequence a plurality of illumination modules of an illumination source to illuminate a document, where the plurality of illumination modules are located at different positions relative to the document. The document can be imaged each time the document is illuminated by an illumination module to provide a plurality of images. A shadow profile of the document can be obtained based on the plurality of images. One or more of a boundary of the document and presence of a fastener attached to the document can be identified using the shadow profile. Any fasteners present may be removed using a robot arm.

Disclosed is an imaging system, which may include: an image forming apparatus including a conveyer, a sheet feeder on which recording media are exposed to an outside, a first hardware processor that causes the conveyer to convey the recording media one by one, an image former, and a first communicator; and an imaging apparatus including an imager, a second hardware processor that causes the imager to image documents one by one in accordance with a timing at which the conveyer conveys each document, the plurality of documents being the plurality of recording media loaded on the sheet feeder to be imaged, and a second communicator that communicates with the first communicator. The imaging system performs: transmission of first information for determining an imaging timing from the first communicator to the second communicator; and/or transmission of second information for determining a conveyance start timing from the second communicator to the first communicator.

Devices and methods automatically detach a note sheet from a document to which the note sheet is detachably attached and scanning the note sheet separately from the note-sheet-detached document to yield digitalized copies of the document and note-sheet. A note display-processing unit involving the devices and methods processes the digitalized document copy and the digitalized note-sheet copy to generate note-embedded document data producing, when the note-embedded document data is displayed on a computer display, a digitalized document copy with a note-sheet-representing icon, added to the digitalized document copy at a predetermined position thereon, that causes the digitalized note-sheet copy to appear whenever a display-interactive cursor moves over the icon. The note sheet may be automatically reattached to the document in the note sheet's original position on the document.

Note sheets, having opposite free and adhesive edges, removably attached to documents are individuated and scanned. A document-edge bearing device shifts away from a document to allow the document's edge nearest its note sheet's free edge to droop under its own weight and open a free-edge-document gap. A scanning control unit situates into the gap a note-wedging guide component of a pivotal scanning device carried on a note-targeting platform, and having a note-sheet scanner and rollers for moving a removable note sheet across the scanner, both to peel the note sheet off its document, and to scan the note sheet. In a note-sheet presence/position detecting mechanism, document-edge pressing sliders wrinkle a document, and a control-linked sensor detects a shading-difference-originating gap between the free edge of any removable note sheet, and the document to which it is attached, to determine physical presence and document-relative position of the note sheet.

A sheet medium conveying device conveys a sheet medium in which position detection marks are provided at regular intervals in a medium conveying direction in which the sheet medium is conveyed. The sheet medium conveying device includes a controller that controls conveyance of the sheet medium. The controller selects one of a first standby position and a second standby position located downstream of the first standby position in the medium conveying direction, and conveys the sheet medium to the selected standby position and puts the sheet medium on standby.

An image reading apparatus includes a first reading section configured to read a first plane of the document, a second reading section configured to read a second plane which is a back side of the first plane, a first controller stops the reading of the first reading section after causing the first reading section to read a last line before the reading of the first reading section is stopped and transmits a reading stop instruction to a second controller earlier than a timing when the first reading section reads the last line by a time difference corresponding to a delay generated in communication between the first and second controllers. The second controller stops reading of the second reading section after causing the second reading section to read one line in response to the reading stop instruction.

Disclosed is an image reading device including: a reader that reads an image on a continuous sheet; a conveying member that conveys the continuous sheet to a reading position; a calibration member that is movable to the reading position; a hardware processor that moves the conveying member and the calibration member so as to switch an arrangement between a first arrangement in which the continuous sheet directly faces the reader and a second arrangement in which the continuous sheet is located away from the reader and the calibration member directly faces the reader; and a pressing member that is disposed at the side of the reader parallel to a reading surface and that applies tension to the continuous sheet in the first arrangement so as to position a sheet surface of the continuous sheet at the reading surface.