An information processing apparatus is configured to receive the identification information items of the one or more destinations from an information terminal device via the first communication interface, the information terminal device storing addresses and identification information items of one or more destinations in association with each other, the one or more destinations being selectable as a data-transmission-destination, select an identification information item of a destination, to which data is to be transmitted, out of the received identification information items of the one or more destinations, and transmit the selected identification information item of the destination and the data to the information terminal device via the first communication interface.

The present disclosure relates to user-selected metadata related to images captured by a camera of a client device. User-selected metadata may include contextual information and/or information provided by a user when the images are captured. In various implementations, a free form input may be received at a first client device of one or more client devices operated by a user. A task request may be recognized from the free form input, and it may be determined that the task request includes a request to store metadata related to one or more images captured by a camera of the first client device. The metadata may be selected based on content of the task request. The metadata may then be stored, e.g., in association with one or more images captured by the camera, in computer-readable media. The computer-readable media may be searchable by the metadata.

A document scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to control an image scanner to scan a document sheet, thereby generating scanned image data, control a communication interface to transmit, to a storage, an instruction for inquiring whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in a folder of the storage, control the communication interface to receive data existence information representing whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, when the data existence information represents that there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to remove the one or more pieces of image data from the folder, and control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to store the scanned image data generated by the image scanner, into the folder.

A retrieval information generation device includes a determination unit that determines retrieval document information for retrieving a phrase in an original document from an original document file which is created by reading the original document by an image reading device and is identified on the basis of identification information, an extraction unit that extracts retrieval image information for visually specifying the original document from the original document file, and a generation unit that associates the retrieval document information and the retrieval image information with the identification information of the original document file to generate a retrieval file.

An image forming apparatus for executing an application for performing an image forming operation is provided. The apparatus includes an interface library. The interface library includes information about an image forming operation performable by the image forming apparatus, a user interface (UI) configured to provide a UI screen for receiving a request to perform the image forming operation, by referring to the interface library, at least one operation processor configured to call an application programming interface (API) corresponding to the image forming operation, based on the received request to perform the image forming operation, and an operation performer configured to perform the image forming operation requested to be performed, according to the call.

Digital media can be automatically transferred between a digital capture device or storage device and one or more other devices with little or no user intervention. Media can be selected for automatic transfer based on one or more media-content or media-context characteristics.

A system and method for efficiently and securely converting physical documents, including handwritten reports, into structured data stored in databases is disclosed. The method includes extraction by a processor of electronic images or text from scanned physical documents and transmission of the extracted data by the processor to other devices for evaluation by data entry technicians. A candidate set of potential responses to a field may be provided to a data entry technician to enable the data entry technician to evaluate the extracted data. The candidate set may be generated based on responses extracted physical documents having the same author. Entries from different data fields of documents may be provided to different data entry technicians to reduce the amount of information provided to a data entry technician, thereby reducing security risks for documents containing confidential material.

A facsimile apparatus includes a facsimile control unit, a subbox generating unit, and a facsimile managing unit. The facsimile control unit is configured to obtain facsimile image data of a received facsimile. The subbox generating unit is configured to (a) extract receiver information or sender information from the facsimile image data, (b) determine a company name, one or plural belonging group names and a name of a receiver or a sender that are continuously included in the receiver information or the sender information, and (c) hierarchically generate subboxes on the basis of the determined company name, the determined one or plural belonging group names and the determined name. The facsimile managing unit is configured to store the facsimile image data into a subbox of which a name is the same as the determined name in a lowest layer among the subboxes hierarchically generated.

Digital media can be automatically transferred between a digital capture device or storage device and one or more other devices with little or no user intervention. Media can be selected for automatic transfer based on one or more media-content or media-context characteristics.

An information processing apparatus includes an identifier generator, a reversible converter, and an assignment unit. The identifier generator generates first identifiers which are uniquely specified. The reversible converter reversibly converts the first identifiers to generate second identifiers. The assignment unit assigns the second identifiers to processes to be assigned with identifiers.