A reading apparatus, having a document placement plate, a reader, a driving device, a cover, and a controller, is provided. The cover includes an alignment part and a protrusive part. The protrusive part includes an uneven surface and first and second edges forming outer edges of the uneven surface extending in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, respectively. The controller is configured control the driving device to move the reader in the sub-scanning direction and the reader while being moved to read the protrusive part, and detect the first edge and the second edge in image data of the protrusive part read by the reader based on an image of the uneven surface and determine a reading range for the reader in the document placement plate based on positions of the first edge and the second edge.

An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a reading unit, a verification unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on a recording sheet. The reading unit reads the image printed by the printing unit. The verification unit verifies the image read by the reading unit. The control unit performs control to cause information, indicating that the image read by the reading unit is not to be verified by the verification unit, to be printed on the recording sheet with the image. When the reading unit reads the information, the control unit performs control so that the image is not to be verified by the verification unit.

An image forming apparatus includes: a text extractor that analyses an image of an original document read by an image reading device and extracts a text in the original document and location information on the text in association with each other; an acquirer that acquires correspondence information in which a keyword and specification information are associated with each other; a searcher that searches the text in the original document for a target term matching the keyword; an identifier that identifies a location of the target term within the image of the original document from the location information on the text extracted by the text extractor; and an image data generator that generates image data in which an image in a mode of presentation specified by the specification information in the correspondence information acquired by the acquirer is synthesized on the location of the target term identified by the identifier.

A control unit of an image reading apparatus determines, based on results of detection of an original document by a plurality of second detecting units, whether the original document will pass a position at which the original document is to be detected by a first detecting unit that is located downstream of the second detecting units and upstream of a reading unit. When it is determined that the original document will not pass a position at which the original document is to be detected by the first detecting unit, the control unit determines a timing for reading the original document by using the reading unit, relative to a time point at which the original document is detected by the second detecting units. The control unit causes the reading unit to read the original document at the determined reading timing.

A display device includes a display portion, a display processing portion, a detecting portion, and a notification processing portion. The display processing portion displays one or more predetermined display objects on the display portion. The detecting portion detects a shielded area in the display portion shielded by a shielding object. The notification processing portion notifies by voice, among the one or more display objects, a display object that includes an area partially or completely overlapped with the shielded area detected by the detecting portion.

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus being capable of communicating via facsimile, includes a second controller circuit that receives image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, from the image forming apparatus via the network, and determines a storage area to store the image data based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the facsimile transmission information and/or based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the additional information.

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a first generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires plural images of a single material with different backgrounds. The first generation unit generates an image of the single material without a background color by using the plural images.

An information processing device performs processing on document image data. The document image data includes first image data of a plurality of images and second image data. The first image data undergoes character recognition processing. The second image data does not undergo character recognition processing. The information processing device includes a detecting section, an extracting section, and a processing section. The detecting section detects the first image data from the document image data. The extracting section extracts the first image data from the document image data. The processing section generates composite image data by compositing the images of the first image data and performs character recognition on the composite image data.

An information processing device performs processing on document image data including first image data to undergo character recognition processing and second image data not to undergo character recognition processing. The information processing device includes a detecting section which detects the first image data, an extracting section which extracts the first image data, and a processing section. The processing section includes a counting section which counts first images, a determining section which determines whether the number of the first images exceeds a threshold, a first performing section which performs first processing when the threshold is exceeded, and a second performing section which performs second processing when the threshold is not exceeded. Through the first processing, the second image is masked with a background color of the document image and character recognition is then performed on the document image. Through the second processing, character recognition is performed on the first images.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer section that transfers an image onto a sheet, a sheet conveying member that is provided upstream of the transfer section in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet, and a hardware processor that controls displacement of the sheet conveying member in such a way that the sheet is displaced along the width direction of the sheet. The hardware processor performs first displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in a direction which is specified in advance with respect to the sheet and in which an edge of the sheet in the width direction is directed toward a target position and second displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in the direction opposite the direction of the first displacement.