A chart creation method to be used in a system including an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, the control apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a chart creation control program are provided. The chart creation method includes: creating a print image of a chart; giving instructions to the image forming apparatus to print the chart and measure colors of the chart; obtaining measured color values of the color patches of the chart from the image forming apparatus; and rearranging the color patches of the chart so as to restrict spread of average color values of subgroups of color patches in the chart within a predetermined range. The chart creation method further includes: creating a print image of the color chart including the rearranged color patches, and giving instructions to the image forming apparatus to print the chart and measure colors of the chart.

An image reading apparatus includes a read size determination circuit. The read size determination circuit has a plurality of operation mode including a first mode and a second mode. The first mode determines the size of the document detected by the first document reading unit as a first read size and determines a read size of the document set in advance as a second read size. The first read size is the read size of the document when the first document reading unit reads the document. The second mode determines the size of the document detected by the first document reading unit as the first read size. If the second document reading unit reads the document, the second mode determines the read size of the document set in the setting screen as the second read size when a start instruction of a reading job is entered using the operation circuit.

An image processing apparatus is provided for scanning a medium including a scan region where target information is provided. The image processing apparatus implements processes of running an application for generating an electronic document; controlling the application to instruct a scanning device to scan the medium at a specified scan size, which is smaller than the size of the medium and includes at least the scan region, upon accepting a scan instruction from a user; controlling the scanning device to scan the medium and capture image data of the medium at the specified scan size based on the instruction from the application; executing a character recognition process on the image data captured by the scanning device to acquire the target information; and controlling the application to generate the electronic document including the target information acquired by the character recognition process input to a corresponding input field.

An image reading device includes an imaging device to capture an image of a document placed below the imaging device to generate a document image and output an image signal based on the document image, circuitry to determine a size of a fed-sheet based on information on the fed-sheet, the fed-sheet being a sheet to be formed with the document image, generate a frame image for the document image, the frame image having a size equal to the size of the fed-sheet, and synthesize the frame image with the image signal output from the imaging device to generate a synthesized image, and a display to display the synthesized image.

An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment by the present disclosure includes a storage unit for storing a reading size, an identifying unit for identifying the reading size using a sensor, a reading unit for reading an image of a document, and a setting unit for setting the identifying unit to identify the reading size. In case of the identifying unit identifying the size of the document in a state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size identified by the identifying unit. In case of the identifying unit not identifying the size of the document in the state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size stored in the storage unit.

An image reader device includes: an original placement part; a holder supporting the original placement part and forming, with the original placement part, a first boundary extending in a first direction; an image reading part movable in a vertical scan direction parallel to the first direction; and an open-close unit closable relative to the original placement part and including a press member which presses an original on the original placement part. The press member includes a first zone and a second zone arranged in the first direction. The first zone includes an extended portion extending beyond the first boundary from the original placement part to the holder when the open-close unit is located at a closed position.

A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.

An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores a medium setting including information representing a printing area on a printing medium, a printing section that performs printing on the printing medium based on the medium setting stored in the storage section, a determining section that determines whether a first medium setting included in a print job sent from an information processing apparatus and including information representing a printing area on a printing medium differs from a second medium setting stored as the medium setting in the storage section, and a controller that changes the medium setting stored in the storage section from the second medium setting to the first medium setting, when the determining section determines that the first medium setting differs from the second medium setting.

A method for reproducing images comprises the steps of: obtaining 1.sup.st to N.sup.th scan images in order, where N is a positive integer greater than 2; processing the 1.sup.st to N.sup.th scan images into 1.sup.st to N.sup.th document images and obtaining sizes of the 1.sup.st to N.sup.th document images; and performing an ordered document typesetting according to an ordered accumulated size of the 1.sup.st to N.sup.th document images to generate image data corresponding to one or multiple output pages. An image-processing apparatus is also provided. Thus, it is possible to prevent the waste of printing a small-size document image on a large-size sheet, and the user can obtain the order of documents according to the order of the output pages. So, an instinctive and environment protective copying technical solution can be provided, and an output result can be further adjusted.

An information processing apparatus for transmitting image data input by sequentially reading documents, with limiting an allowable frame size, includes: a transmission controller, wherein, in a case where the document has an irregular size, the transmission controller transmits the image data to a transmission destination in a preset frame of a first frame size until a rear edge of the document is detected, and if a portion, which is not transmitted, of the image data exists when the rear edge of the document is detected, transmits the portion to the transmission destination in a frame of a second frame size smaller than the first frame size so that the transmitting of the portion is finished before a start of transmission of image data corresponding to a next document.