An image processing apparatus for setting a property of a document file by using a result of a character recognition process performed on a scanned image of a document is provided and includes an obtaining unit and an a setting unit. The obtaining unit obtains a character string by performing the character recognition process on a scanned image relating to a document file to be generated in this operation. The setting unit automatically sets the character string obtained by the obtaining unit as a character string to be used in a property of the document file to be generated in this operation if the character string obtained by the obtaining unit is a character string obtained in the character recognition process performed on a scanned image relating to a document file generated in the past and approved by a user a certain number of times or more.

An information processing apparatus capable of reducing troublesome work of a user when converting an image obtained by newly scanning a business form to a file. An information processing apparatus that sets, when converting the image to a file, a file name of the image. A preview image of the scanned original is displayed, and user selection of a character area on the preview image is detected. An item name candidate area is extracted based on location information of the character area selected by the user on the preview image, and a character string included in the item name candidate area is set as an item name of a character string included in the character area selected by the user. The set item name is displayed as a file name rule such that the set item name is selectable by the user.

An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores control information to be utilized for displaying a setting screen on which entry of a setting value for an application added to the information processing apparatus is received; and circuitry to receive a user operation related to execution of the application on the setting screen and perform processing for installing the application.

An information processing system includes a plurality of apparatuses and an information processing apparatus. The plurality of apparatuses includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first communication unit and a switching unit. The first communication unit is configured to receive screen information about the second apparatus sent from the information processing apparatus. The screen information is displayed on a first application program in the first apparatus. The switching unit is configured to switch a screen of a second application program to the screen of the first application program to display the screen of the first application program in response to receipt of the screen information by the first communication unit, when the first apparatus displays the screen of the second application program. The information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with the plurality of apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes a second communication unit that is configured to transmit the screen information to the first apparatus.

An image forming apparatus may include a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a processor. The processor is to execute the computer-executable instructions to execute a service program management module of an application framework layer, according to a request of a user-defined service program having application service rights of an application layer, register a service provided by the user-defined service program in the service program management module, request an operation of a system service requiring system service rights of an operating system layer, and manage the registered service.

An information processing apparatus capable of reducing troublesome work of a user when converting an image obtained by newly scanning a business form to a file. An information processing apparatus that sets, when converting the image to a file, a file name of the image. A preview image of the scanned original is displayed, and user selection of a character area on the preview image is detected. An item name candidate area is extracted based on location information of the character area selected by the user on the preview image, and a character string included in the item name candidate area is set as an item name of a character string included in the character area selected by the user. The set item name is displayed as a file name rule such that the set item name is selectable by the user.

An information processing apparatus includes first processing circuitry; and a first memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the first processing circuitry to: accept, by an application, an instruction to cause an image forming apparatus to execute image processing; give, by a print framework, an instruction to execute the image processing to the image forming apparatus; and cause, by a first function providing application, the print framework to give the instruction to execute the image processing to the image forming apparatus, upon receiving a call from the application.

The present invention includes: a receiver that receives posting of a message including a request by a user; a poster that posts the message received by the receiver to a social networking service (SNS); an acquirer that acquires a message posted by an image forming device from the SNS, the image forming device being able to process the request and being among image forming devices that are associated with the user in the SNS; and a display that shows the message acquired by the acquirer.

An image forming apparatus may include a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a processor. The processor is to execute the computer-executable instructions to execute a service program management module of an application framework layer, according to a request of a user-defined service program having application service rights of an application layer, register a service provided by the user-defined service program in the service program management module, request an operation of a system service requiring system service rights of an operating system layer, and manage the registered service.

A terminal device control method includes: a window mode information acquisition step of acquiring window mode information indicating any one of a single-window mode, which is a mode in which one application runs, and a multi-window mode, which is a mode in which a plurality of applications run in parallel, for a screen of a terminal device configured to cause an external device to perform operation by communicating to/from the external device; a switching step of making a switch, in a case in which the window mode information acquired in the window mode information acquisition step indicates the multi-window mode, to enable or disable a first operation, which is an operation to be performed at least in a time period in which a first application for causing the external device to perform operation runs, and is an operation regarding information to be transmitted from the external device to the terminal device; and a first operation execution step of executing the first operation in a case in which the switch has been made to enable the first operation in the switching step.