An image processing apparatus includes a fluorescence pixel detecting unit, a peripheral pixel analyzing unit, and an image processing unit. The fluorescence pixel detecting unit is configured to detect a fluorescence pixel that has a fluorescent color in a document image. The peripheral pixel analyzing unit is configured to detect consecutive non-fluorescence pixels with no fluorescent colors among peripheral pixels within a predetermined range from the detected fluorescence pixel. The consecutive non-fluorescence pixels is at least a predetermined number of consecutive pixels and has a color difference equal to or less than a predetermined value between one and another of the consecutive non-fluorescence pixels. The image processing unit is configured to perform an emphasizing process of improving visibility for the detected consecutive non-fluorescence pixels.

An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a paper supply unit. An image forming unit forms an image on paper supplied from the paper supply unit. A reading unit generates image information by reading an original document, the generated image information corresponding to the original document. An input unit receives input designation of a memo region in the generated image information. A control unit determines a color of the original document based on the generated image information. The image forming unit forms a memo image in the designated memo region on the paper supplied from the paper supply unit with a color different from the determined color of the original document.

A printing device displays a preview image of received image data, receives, based on the previewed image, an instruction to rotate the received image, rotates the received image data based on the received rotation instruction, and prints the rotated image data.

Provided is an information processing apparatus that transmits image data input by sequentially reading originals, with limiting an allowable frame size. The apparatus includes: a transmission control unit, in which, in a case where an original has an existing size, the transmission control unit transmits the image data to a destination with frames having one of frame sizes selected based on the existing size of the original, such that transmission of the current image data is finished before a start of transmission of the image data of the next original.

Disclosed is a guidance information display device, including: a display unit; a camera unit; an action detecting unit to detect a specific action of a user; and a control unit to instruct the display unit to display guidance information when the specific action is detected by the action detecting unit and a specific instrument to be operated is shot by the camera unit, the displayed guidance information corresponding to a combination of the detected specific action and the shot instrument to be operated.

There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: a feeder mechanism that feeds a sheet in a sheet-feeding direction; a metal-detector antenna capable of detecting an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag on the sheet entirely in the carriage-moving direction over the sheet; a carriage that moves back-and-force in the carriage-moving direction and includes a print head, the print head forming an image on an area of the sheet, the area having passed the metal-detector antenna; an NFC antenna on the carriage, the NFC antenna being capable of communicating with the NFC tag via near field communication; and an NFC writer that writes NFC data in the NFC tag via the NFC antenna.

For a plurality of types of print media, a pre-trained model is prepared, the pre-trained model being generated by machine learning based on spectroscopic information of an unprinted area on the print medium and an identifier indicating the type of the print medium and using the identifier as a trainer. The spectroscopic information of the unprinted area on the print medium to print on is acquired. The acquired spectroscopic information is applied to the pre-trained model. Using a result thereof, auxiliary information about the type of the print medium is outputted. A specification of the type of the print medium using the outputted auxiliary information is accepted. When the type of the print medium is thus specified, printing is performed using a print condition suitable for the print medium.

An print medium specification method includes (a) step for acquiring first physical property information related to the print medium; (b) step for acquiring second physical property information different from the first physical property information related to the print medium; (c) step for acquiring a discrimination information for discriminating the type of the print medium by inputting the first physical property information to a discrimination function configured as a learned machine learning model; and (d) step for specify a type of the print medium using the discrimination information and the second physical property information not used for machine learning.

In a case where a setting that is a target of a first control is set in a print setting, the first control is performed, whereas in a case where the setting that is the target of the first control is not set in the print setting, the first control is not performed. The first control is performed to change an orientation of a drawing data such that the drawing data is printed on a sheet in an orientation with a bottom side and a top side of the drawing data respectively corresponding to a downstream side and an upstream side of the sheet in a conveyance direction of conveying the sheet to a printing apparatus that performs print processing to print the drawing data.

An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image of a document that is read by a document reading apparatus; and control an image output device such that the read image and an additional image are outputted to a medium with a significance portion and the additional image prevented from overlapping, and a length of the medium in a sub scanning direction is increased in a case where the significance portion of the read image and a specified region of the read image to which the additional image is decided to be added overlap.