A reading device includes a visible light source to irradiate a subject with light having a visible wavelength; an invisible light source to irradiate the subject with light having an invisible wavelength; first and second image sensors to receive reflected light from the subject being irradiated with the light having the visible wavelength and the light having the invisible wavelength, and circuitry. The first image sensor generates visible image data containing a first invisible component, and the second image sensor generates invisible image data of a second invisible component. The circuitry removes the first invisible component contained in the visible image data using the invisible image data. The circuitry multiplies the invisible image data with the correction coefficient that absorbs an individual variation in removal of the first invisible component, and the correction coefficient is generated based on the visible image data and the invisible image.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor, in which the processor causes a display, in a case where a shared access right is set to data to be processed, the data being stored in an external apparatus, to display information indicating that the data is stored in the external apparatus, before a user logs in to an apparatus that processes the data, and the processor causes the display, in a case where the shared access right is not set to the data and an access right of a specific user is set to the data, not to display the information before login, but display the information after the specific user logs in to the apparatus.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where an instruction to change a name associated with an operator that is associated with a process of transmitting target data to a transmission destination of destination information set in advance and is shared among plural users is received, set a display setting of the destination information associated with the operator to non-display of not displaying the destination information.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic system is described. The electronic system includes a scanning device to capture an image of an object. The object includes encoded data formed therein. An attribute determiner of the electronic system determines an actual value of a surface attribute of the object. The electronic system includes an extraction device to extract from the image of the object, a target value for the surface attribute from the encoded data. A comparator of the electronic system determines if a difference between the actual value and the target value has a specified value.

Service for a machine such as a laboratory instrument can be facilitated by capture of images showing the field of view of a user of the machine, and modification of those images to remove confidential information. Modified images can then be provided to service technicians so that the service technicians can have visual information that would allow them to more effectively communicate and interact with the machines' users.

The disclosed enhanced document creation and parsing systems deal with enhanced documents that allow for the presentation of document content in a preferred visual manner, while ensuring that the document content can be captured accurately by an automated parser with nothing being discarded or misrepresented. The enhanced document creation system may create an enhanced document by encoding document content in accordance with a defined schema, optionally encrypting the resulting structured data into an encrypted byte string, and embedding the encrypted byte string as non-visible metadata in a rendered document. The resulting enhanced document can be completely and accurately parsed by an enhanced document parsing system that is capable of extracting, decrypting and decoding the embedded document metadata.

An inspection device includes an image reader that generates a scan image, an inspector that inspects an inspection target image formed on a storage medium, by comparing a scan image with a reference image, a storage that stores the reference image, and a hardware processor that stores into the storage the reference image generated as the scan image by reading with the image reader an image formed on a recording medium by the image former on a basis of a second print job for generating the reference image, determines whether the reference image stored in the storage satisfies a predetermined condition when a data amount of the reference image stored in the storage becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined amount, and deletes the reference image determined to satisfy the predetermined condition from the storage.

The disclosed enhanced document creation and parsing systems deal with enhanced documents that allow for the presentation of document content in a preferred visual manner, while ensuring that the document content can be captured accurately by an automated parser with nothing being discarded or misrepresented. The enhanced document creation system may create an enhanced document by encoding document content in accordance with a defined schema, optionally encrypting the resulting structured data into an encrypted byte string, and embedding the encrypted byte string as non-visible metadata in a rendered document. The resulting enhanced document can be completely and accurately parsed by an enhanced document parsing system that is capable of extracting, decrypting and decoding the embedded document metadata.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire data, an instruction for a process in which the data are used, and biological information on a user who provides the instruction, and execute the process in accordance with a condition under which a time before the process is completed is shorter, when the biological information indicates that the user is in a specific psychological state, than a specific psychological state under a condition determined in advance.

An image inspection device includes a hardware processor executing an inspection for a first read image generated by reading a first sheet on which one image is formed, based on a reference image. When an operation for newly generating the reference image is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor acquires second read images generated by respectively reading second sheets on each of which the one image is formed and generates the reference image using the inspection for the first read image. When an operation for using the generated reference image stored in a storage unit is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor uses the reference image in the storage unit for the inspection for the first read image, without newly acquiring the second read images.