There is provided a controller configured to execute: obtaining of color values of picture elements, respectively, of P pieces of target picture element columns; identifying of a blank picture element, indicating a white color as a brightest color; and identifying a candidate picture element line as a blank line which is a picture element line indicating the white color as the brightest color, the candidate picture element line being constructed of T pieces of picture elements arranged side by side in a second direction and including the P pieces of target picture elements located at a same position in the first direction, in a case that the candidate picture element line satisfies a first blank line condition, wherein the P is a integer in a range of not less than 2 to less than the T.

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive a target luminance characteristic based on a viewing condition of an image and a print luminance characteristic predicted based a reflection characteristic corresponding to data thereon; a unit configured to generate print image data on an image by converting input image data by using a tone conversion characteristic that is set based on these characteristics, in which the derivation unit derives, in a case where a reproduction range of an illumination intensity in the print luminance characteristic is different, the target luminance characteristic so that a liner area of an output luminance in a case where the reproduction range is relatively large becomes large.

An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register information on a certain person before acquiring image data to be printed, a specification unit configured to specify a number of certain persons in the image data to be printed based on the image data to be printed and the information on the certain person, a determination unit configured to determine a number of copies to be printed based on a number of people obtained by subtracting the specified number of certain persons from a number of people detected from the image data to be printed, and an instruction unit configured to give an instruction for printing the determined number of copies.

An information processing apparatus includes a sending unit and a controller. The sending unit sends a fax to a destination. The controller executes control for printing identification information for identifying the destination in accordance with selection made by a sender of the fax on paper output at the destination in response to sending of the fax. In a case where the sender of the fax selects a destination name as the identification information, if the destination name is unprintable as it is on the paper, the controller executes control for printing a phone number of the destination as the identification information on the paper.

An image forming apparatus includes circuitry to: receive an instruction for copying an image of a document from a user; acquire biometric information of the user; and embed user information in the image, the user information including one of the biometric information of the user and information for specifying the biometric information of the user; and an image forming device to print the image having the user information embedded, on a recording medium to output a copied image.

An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet includes a reading section, a determining section, a generation section, a searching section, and a placement section. The reading section reads a predetermined shape from an original document. The determining section determines whether or not the predetermined shape contains a first image. The generation section generates a first search condition based on the first image. The searching section searches for at least one second image fulfilling the first search condition from a storage apparatus storing a plurality of images. The placement section places the second image in a first area in which the predetermined shape is located.

The present invention relates to a device (100) for checking printing of an article, the device (100) comprising: data providing device (10) adapted to provide printing data for the article from product data of the article; camera device (20) adapted to receive an image of an article printed by a printing process and to provide it as image data; and a computer device (30) adapted to perform a quality check of the printing process based on a comparison of the printing data with the image data.

There is provided a controller configured to execute: obtaining of color values of picture elements, respectively, of P pieces of target picture element columns; identifying of a blank picture element, indicating a white color as a brightest color; and identifying a candidate picture element line as a blank line which is a picture element line indicating the white color as the brightest color, the candidate picture element line being constructed of T pieces of picture elements arranged side by side in a second direction and including the P pieces of target picture elements located at a same position in the first direction, in a case that the candidate picture element line satisfies a first blank line condition, wherein the P is a integer in a range of not less than 2 to less than the T.

In one example of the disclosure, a set of electronic document templates is accessed and instances of duplicated document content are identified. Display of a user notice for first duplicated document content is caused. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction to create a component template for the first duplicated content, the component template is created and stored.

A printing apparatus having a copying function includes a document feeder that feeds a document, an image reading section that scans the document fed from the document feeder and generates image data of the document, a printing section that performs printing on paper in accordance with the image data, and a controller. The controller performs an avoidance process of avoiding performing the printing in which a size of a sheet of the document and a size of the paper do not match against an intention of a user, in a case where a setting is made in which the document, on which single-sided printing is performed, is printed on both sides of the paper to perform double-sided printing, and the document includes sheets having different sizes and includes an odd number of successive sheets with an identical size.