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.

A multi-functional printing (MFP) includes a scan privacy tool to allow edits and changes to a scanned document image to remove or hide private information within a document. The scan privacy tool is enabled for jobs on the MFP device and launches when a job is run. The document is scanned and a scanned document image displayed on a display and edit interface of the scan privacy tool. Changes are made to the image using tools available through the scan privacy tool. The changes are applied to the scanned document image. The modified image is saved and transmitted to an engine in the MFP device to complete the job. An external input device, such as control buttons or a motion sensor device, is used to input instructions to the scan privacy tool in order to modify the scanned image.

Provided is a document management system for managing document data by applying access restrictions to each metadata acquired by character recognition of document data to be managed. The mage forming apparatus acquires document data to be managed. The image-processing server performs character recognition of document data and acquires metadata. The image forming apparatus specifies metadata to be concealed in document data. The image forming apparatus receives a security setting, correlates a metadata name to be concealed with the security setting, and transmits the security setting together with document data to the image-processing server. The document-management server, in the case where there is an access request from a user for document data, allows access to the document data based on the security setting by not masking metadata for which there is access authority, and masking metadata for which there is no access authority.

A system and method to recognize the utilization of an unsupported workflow process to process the document to be rendered; write, when it is recognized that an unsupported workflow process is to be utilized in processing the document, security information, from a document security tag associated with the document, in a supported area in the document, to create a modified document, the modified document having security information, from the document security tag, written therein; process, using the unsupported workflow process, the modified document; and render, by the printing system, the modified document in accordance the security, governance, or tracking measures documented in the document security tag associated with the document.

A method comprising: analysing an image to determine an image scene category; and generating an anonymized image based on a determined image scene category by applying a morphing model to the image as a whole, such that the anonymised image is between the image and a generic image associated with the identified scene category.

A copy-evident document and a method of printing a copy-evident document wherein a void pantograph is created including a first set of halftone elements and a second set of halftone elements different in modulation from the first set of halftone elements. An overlay including a white image with a plurality of halftone hole locations is preferably formed, wherein the halftone elements of the void pantograph are converted to the plurality of halftone hole locations. The overlay is then preferably merged with a background image, such that portions of the background image are visible at the halftone hole locations of the overlay when printed. The merged image is then printed on print media, wherein the portions of the background image that are printed are printed at locations where the holes locations are present in the overlay creating a copy-evident feature.

An image processing apparatus is communicable with a system including a censorship function, and includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, and the one or more controllers are configured to transmit an image acquired by reading a display medium to the system, receive a censorship result from the system, and control the image processing apparatus to perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the received censorship result, wherein the predetermined operation is a preset operation to be performed by the image processing apparatus based on the received censorship result.

Example implementations relate to hiding sensitive data. For example, a device according to the present disclosure may include a scanning portion to receive a scan of a document, and a graphical user interface to receive a command with respect to the sensitive data. The device may also include a processor to analyze the scan of the document, process the command via the graphical user interface, determine the document contains sensitive data in response to the command, and perform an action to hide the sensitive data.

Provided is an image forming apparatus that is capable of protecting the confidentiality of an image that is printed and outputted on paper. The image forming apparatus according to this disclosure is an image forming apparatus that outputs paper on which an image is formed. The image forming apparatus includes an imaging unit, a user-recognizing unit, a person-recognizing unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit performs imaging of the surroundings. The user-recognizing unit recognizes a user of the image forming apparatus. The person-recognizing unit recognizes persons in imaging data obtained by the imaging unit. The control unit performs confidentiality-protected output of outputting the paper so that the image on the paper is shielded when the person-recognizing unit recognizes another person who is other than the user in the imaging data.

A system and method to recognize the utilization of an unsupported workflow process to process the document to be rendered; write, when it is recognized that an unsupported workflow process is to be utilized in processing the document, security information, from a document security tag associated with the document, in a supported area in the document, to create a modified document, the modified document having security information, from the document security tag, written therein; process, using the unsupported workflow process, the modified document; and render, by the printing system, the modified document in accordance the security, governance, or tracking measures documented in the document security tag associated with the document.