According to an aspect of the present disclosure, if an image forming apparatus receives a FAX data, the image forming apparatus posts a message to a chat service indicating that the FAX data has been received, and according to a setting of a forwarding destination of FAX data and scheduled forwarding time, the image forming apparatus posts a message indicating the scheduled forwarding time of the received FAX data. If the image forming apparatus receives an instruction related to forwarding the received FAX data (canceling, changing scheduled time, changing forwarding destination) via the chat service, the image forming apparatus performs processing related to the forwarding the received FAX data (canceling to forward processing, changing scheduled time processing, changing forwarding destination processing) based on the instruction.

A system and method for registering network devices in accordance with customer identification includes a network interface that receives device identification data corresponding to a newly installed multifunction peripheral. The network interface also receives incoming location data corresponding to a physical location of the multifunction peripheral. A memory stores customer list data corresponding to identification of existing customers associatively with stored location data corresponding to existing customer locations. A processor compares incoming location data against the customer list data and associates a customer name with received identification data in accordance with a comparison of the incoming location data and the customer list data.

An image reading apparatus comprising: an original reading unit configured to scan originals placed on an original table in batch by a batch-scan to read an image of each of the originals; a cropping unit configured to crop an image of each original from an image obtained by the batch-scan; an image output unit configured to attach a filename to image data of the cropped image of each original and output each image data in a new folder or an existing folder; and a control unit configured to control the original reading unit, the cropping unit, and the image output unit, wherein the control unit is capable of processing images of multiple originals cropped by more than one batch-scan as a series of image data, and controlling the image output unit in at least such a way that a series of filenames is attached to the series of image data according to a predetermined rule, the series of image data is output into the same folder, or the series of image data is stored in association with one another.

An electronic apparatus comprising at least one memory storing a program and at least one processor, which when executing the program, causes the electronic apparatus to receive a first instruction for enabling a first operation mode and a second instruction for enabling a second operation mode, and perform, in the first operation mode even without a communication instructing operation by a user after the first instruction, control to communicate with a first communication destination and control to communicate with a second communication destination for a firmware update, and perform, in the second operation mode, control to restrict the communication with the first communication destination and control to communicate with the second communication destination even without the communication instructing operation by the user after the second instruction.