In a case where a user instructs an image forming apparatus to perform processing of sending scanned image data to the user from a mobile terminal, the user needs to input a user's e-mail address on the mobile terminal, which includes an inconvenient operation. From the mobile terminal, the user instructs the image forming apparatus to send the data to the user's e-mail address which is preliminarily registered in the image forming apparatus.

According to aspects of the present disclosures, an image scanning apparatus receives an inquiry for assignment information and, when the assignment information designates none of multiple destination candidates, transmits the assignment information indicating the same to a mobile terminal. When receiving, from the mobile terminal, an assignment request requesting to assign a server as a destination, the image scanning apparatus checks whether the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates. When it is confirmed that the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates, a state of the assignment information is changed to a state of designating a server as the destination of image data.

A communication system includes an information processing apparatus and a facsimile apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits, to the facsimile apparatus, first job information that includes a single piece of first image information and includes two or more pieces of address information that respectively indicate addresses of transmission destinations of the first image information. When the first job information is received from the information processing apparatus, based on the two or more pieces of address information that are included in the received first job information, the facsimile apparatus broadcasts the first image information by facsimile communication to the addresses indicated respectively by the two or more pieces of address information.

An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: accepts an image input from outside as an input image; recognizes a plurality of characters in the input image and produces character information that is constituted by the characters and includes a plurality of character strings; detects, from the character information, link information representing a network address of data; and corrects one or more of the character strings other than a character string that constitutes the link information among the character strings.

A facsimile, a control method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The facsimile designates destination information according to a designation operation by a user, extracts the destination information from an image indicated by image information, determines whether the destination information designated according to the designation operation and the destination information extracted from the image match, and display on a display, a notification screen based on a result of determination.

An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor configured to receive setting data that is used for an operation of the information processing apparatus, and upon a determination that the received setting data is formatted according to an old specification and the information processing apparatus has no setting data registered, convert and store the received setting data in a new format in the memory.

Provided is a service providing system including: a service providing server providing a printer use service; and a user terminal configured to communicate with the service providing server, in which the user terminal receives an input of a card number recorded in a service card for receiving the printer use service and transmits the received card number to the service providing server, and the service providing server performs authentication processing of the service card based on the card number received from the user terminal and performs printer delivery processing of causing a service printer to be delivered when authentication of the service card in the authentication processing is successful.

An image forming apparatus receives an input of duplicate data obtained by duplicating: common information applicable also to another image forming apparatus, out of apparatus setting information about the image forming apparatus; unique information applicable only to the image forming apparatus, out of the apparatus setting information; and identification information for identifying the image forming apparatus, determines, if the duplicate data is input, whether identification information on a duplicated data side included in the duplicated data and identification information on an apparatus side stored in a storage match, and writes, if it is determined that the identification information on the duplicated data side and the identification information on the apparatus side match, the unique information included in the duplicated data into the storage.

When an image forming apparatus acquires notification destination information from a document processing flow execution system, and is instructed to change information, the image forming apparatus requests that a master system, indicated by the notification destination information, change the information. The master system changes the information held by the master system itself as requested by the image forming apparatus. When the image forming apparatus is notified about the successful change of information from the master system, the image forming apparatus notifies a slave system, indicated by the notification destination information, about the change of information. When the slave system is notified about the change of information by the image forming apparatus, the slave system changes the information held by the slave system itself to the information acquired from the master system.

An image forming apparatus receives a FAX, a FAX processor performs a FAX reception processing, and acquires reception information (step S11). An information generator determines whether there is reception notification setting information (step S12). If there is a notification setting, the information generator proceeds to step S13, and generates reception notification information. An information notification processor transmits the reception information to a chat server via a network on the basis of the notification setting information (step S14). Next, the information notification processor determines reception notification setting information 124 related to image transfer (step S15). If image transfer is enabled, the information notification processor proceeds to step S16, performs an image transfer process, generates document image information, and transmits same to the chat server. The chat server transmits the reception notification information and the document image information to a terminal apparatus as a chat message.