A scanner has a processor configured to output, when a document is scanned, an original image, which is the image generated by scanning the document, and an extracted image, which is an image extracted from part of the original image, as a single file.

Systems and methods are provided for document handling. Non-vision detection systems may be capable of detecting the dimensions, orientation, and/or position of a single sheet, or multiple stacked sheets. A document scanning arrangement may be capable of double sided scanning for sheets with various characteristics. The systems and methods provided may accommodate high throughput and rapid digitization of various types of documents, at a high quality.

A service use support device used for receiving a plurality of services, includes a hardware processor that: acquires one or more of target images to be processed; selects a preferred service from among the plurality of services for each of the one or more of target images on the basis of a degree at which each attribute satisfies a condition set for each of the plurality of services; and transfers each of the one or more of target images to a provider that provides each preferred service.

A document reading apparatus includes a scanner, an input device receiving an input of a width and length, and a processor configured to scan an area specified based on the input length and generate a first image, generate a second image by removing a part of the first image so that a width of the second image is equal to or greater than the input width, detect a background or non-background area in the second image, determine whether the input is appropriate based on whether all sides of an area specified based on the input width and length overlap the background area or none of the sides overlaps the non-background area on the second image, and when the input is appropriate, output a third image in which the background area is removed or the non-background area is extracted from the second image.

According to one embodiment, an image processing system includes a document transport unit, a document reading unit, an apparatus main body, and a transport mechanism. The document transport unit feeds a document. The document reading unit reads the document fed by the document transport unit. The apparatus main body supports the document reading unit. The transport mechanism transports the document of which reading has been completed by the document reading unit to the apparatus main body.

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect alteration of an application held in the image processing apparatus; determine, upon detecting alteration, whether or not an application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application; and enabling, as a result of the determination, in a case where the application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application, the use of the application by installing the application using pre-held information.

An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data for composition; and divides the image data for composition into bands; an output memory; a storage that determines whether image data of each band coincides with image data of another band, secures a unique region, transfers the image data of the band to the unique region and associates the band with the unique region, secures common regions, transfers the image data of one of the bands to the common region and associates any one of the common regions to each of the bands; a reader that reads the image data from the region associated with each band and outputs the image data for composition; a composer that composes the image data for composition with the image data to be printed; and an image former that forms an image based on the composed image data.

A document reading apparatus includes a scanner, an input device receiving an input of a width and length, and a processor configured to scan an area specified based on the input length and generate a first image, generate a second image by removing a part of the first image so that a width of the second image is equal to or greater than the input width, detect a background or non-background area in the second image, determine whether the input is appropriate based on whether all sides of an area specified based on the input width and length overlap the background area or none of the sides overlaps the non-background area on the second image, and when the input is appropriate, output a third image in which the background area is removed or the non-background area is extracted from the second image.

An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a reading unit, a reference member, and a controller is described. The image forming unit forms an image and a detection image on a sheet. The detection image is used for detecting geometric characteristics of an image to be formed on a sheet by the image forming unit. The fixing unit fixes the image and the detection image formed by the image forming unit on the sheet. The reading unit reads the detection image on the sheet. The controller adjusts geometric characteristics of the image to be formed on a sheet based on a reading result of the detection image by the reading unit, and controls the reading unit to read the reference member and executes shading correction based on a reading result of the reference member.

There is provided an image reading apparatus in which a low output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a low power-feeding USB device is coupled, a high output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a high power-feeding USB device capable of feeding power higher than the low power-feeding USB device is coupled, and a control section does not perform image reading at a second reading speed faster than a first reading speed and performs image reading at the first reading speed in the low output mode.