An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus executes a predetermined workflow including a component whose usage history is to be counted, transmits to a user terminal through a communication network, count target contract input screen information for displaying a count target contract input screen on a display of the user terminal, the count target contract input screen associating a predetermined count target contract with the predetermined workflow, in response to an operation on the count target contract input screen displayed on the display of the user terminal based on the count target contract input screen information, associates the predetermined workflow with predetermined count target contract information indicating the predetermined count target contract, and in response to an execution of the predetermined workflow, counts the usage history of the component included in the predetermined workflow in association with the predetermined count target contract.

An information processing system that manages an application executed by an image processing apparatus with an application identifier includes one or more controllers configured to provide combined information of a reproduction application that reproduces a description file for defining operation procedures and a first description file as a first combined application, provide combined information of the reproduction application and a second description file as a second combined application, manage a first description identifier corresponding to the first description file and a second description identifier corresponding to the second description file, and manage the first combined application and the second combined application in a distinguishable manner based on the first description identifier and the second description identifier.

An information processing system includes circuitry to generate a workflow as a current workflow, analyze the current workflow to obtain a file maximum value indicating a maximum value of a file size processable by the current workflow, and cause a display to display the file maximum value obtained.

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.

An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores each of a plurality of documents, and a processor, in which the processor is configured to receive, from a manager who manages a first step of outputting a first document and a manager who manages a second step of inputting a second document which has content common to the first document and is stored later than the first document among the plurality of documents, first instructions as to whether or not to permit first processing of inputting a document, which is output from the first step, to the second step, and perform the first processing in a case where both the received first instructions permit the first processing.

A non-transitory storage medium stores a program set readable by a computer of a first information processing apparatus. The program set including a first program and a second program. The first program causes the first information processing apparatus to start the second program, and register the started second program, as a virtual scanner, in an operating system of the first information processing apparatus. The second program causes the first information processing apparatus to transmit a scan command of the first protocol to the external scanner, and receive a read result from the external scanner by the first protocol through the communication interface. The external scanner reads a document in response to receipt of the scan command transmitted from the information processing apparatus.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: evaluate the performance of each of plural combinations of processes, each combination including a series of processes, the plural combinations being included in plural processes, the series of processes being configured to be performed on an image, the performance being evaluated on the basis of the result of performing the series of processes on a test image for each combination; select a combination of processes, the evaluated performance of which meets a first selection condition, from among the plural combinations of processes, and process an actual image; and in the case where a performance obtained by processing the actual image meets a switch condition determined in advance, switch to a combination of processes, the evaluated performance of which meets a second selection condition, and process the actual image.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate a performance of each of a plural combinations of processes, each combination including a series of processes, the plural combinations being included in plural processes, the series of processes being configured to be performed on an image, the performance being evaluated on a basis of a result of performing the series of processes on a test image for each combination, and output an evaluation result for at least two combinations.

A method of managing a personalized data storage on a multi-function device (MFD), the method including receiving a request for a new personalized data entry, determining if available storage space exists on the personalized data storage, if available storage space does not exist on the personalized data storage, identifying an existing personalized data entry unused for a first predetermined period of time, determining a user associated with the existing personalized data entry, and sending a query to the user. In some embodiments, the personalized data entry is associated with a consolidated work-flow.

An information processing system in which at least a server and an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus are connected via a network is provided. The server authenticates a user in response to a request for authentication from the image forming apparatus or the information processing apparatus, and stores an adapter registered in the information processing apparatus. The image forming apparatus obtains an adapter registered in the server and corresponding to the authenticated user and executes a process to be executed when the process is described in the obtained adapter and transmits, to the server, a result of the process. The server executes a process to be executed by the server when the process to be executed by the server is described in the obtained adapter and registers the result of the executed process.