A non-transitory storage medium stores a program set readable by a computer of a first information processing apparatus. The program set including a first program and a second program. The first program causes the first information processing apparatus to start the second program, and register the started second program, as a virtual scanner, in an operating system of the first information processing apparatus. The second program causes the first information processing apparatus to transmit a scan command of the first protocol to the external scanner, and receive a read result from the external scanner by the first protocol through the communication interface. The external scanner reads a document in response to receipt of the scan command transmitted from the information processing apparatus.

A server controls a status of a document transmitted by facsimile transmission from a sender apparatus to a receiver apparatus. The server includes circuitry that provides, to a request source apparatus, the document in response to receiving an acquisition request specifying the document, transmitted from the request source apparatus being one of the receiver apparatus and a different apparatus from the receiver apparatus. The circuitry controls a status change, between an unread status and a read status, of the document specified by the acquisition request based on information on the request source apparatus and information on the receiver apparatus of the document.

A non-transitory storage medium stores a program set readable by a computer of a first information processing apparatus. The program set including a first program and a second program. The first program causes the first information processing apparatus to start the second program, and register the started second program, as a virtual scanner, in an operating system of the first information processing apparatus. The second program causes the first information processing apparatus to transmit a scan command of the first protocol to the external scanner, and receive a read result from the external scanner by the first protocol through the communication interface. The external scanner reads a document in response to receipt of the scan command transmitted from the information processing apparatus.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire image data with a destination; acquire a condition that is pre-defined as to whether image data transmission is permitted or not; and if whether the image data transmission is permitted or not is difficult to determine in accordance with the condition, perform control not to transmit the image data to the destination but to present the condition to an administrator that manages the condition.

An information processing apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an instruction for printing based on a print job is given by a remote operation, and a decision unit configured to decide one of apparatuses belonging to a local network, to which the information processing apparatus belongs, as a storage destination of the print job in accordance with a result of the determination by the determination unit.

An information processing apparatus includes plural network interfaces; a storage area for storing data, which is associated with output path information defining a network interface permitted as an output path of the stored data; a user attribute storage unit that stores an attribute of each user; and a reception unit that receives selection of the output path information associated with the storage area from the user, and receives selection of an option associated with the storage area, from a group of options limited according to the attribute of the user, among plural options for the output path information.

An image reading apparatus includes an imaging device, a first communication device capable of communicating at a first communication speed according to a first communication protocol, a second communication device capable of communicating at a second communication speed lower than the first communication speed according to a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, a first processor to separately transmit a first image acquired by imaging a first surface of a medium by the imaging device, and a second image acquired by imaging a second surface of the medium by the imaging device, via the first communication device, and a second processor to transmit a combined image acquired by combining the first image and the second image via the second communication device.

An information processing system, a data transfer method, and a recording medium. The information processing system transfers data to storage that is a transfer destination and in response to a data transfer request from a device, the information processing system transfers the data with reference to distribution settings information that designates a storage location of the data in the storage.

A method of automatically creating trust communities in a fleet of devices. The method includes finding candidate devices in a fleet of devices via one or more candidate discovery techniques and generating device-related data based on the candidate devices that are found, analyzing the device-related data via an analytics engine and creating one or more fleet orchestrator device lists based on the analysis of the device-related data, and automatically creating one or more new trust communities or suggesting joining one or more previously existing trust communities based at least on the one or more fleet orchestrator device lists for the candidate devices, wherein the one or more new trust communities or previously existing trust communities include at least a sub-set of the devices in the fleet, and wherein at least one of the managed devices in the sub-set of devices is configured as a root device to publish files via a file sharing function.

A non-transitory storage medium stores a program set readable by a computer of a first information processing apparatus. The program set including a first program and a second program. The first program causes the first information processing apparatus to start the second program, and register the started second program, as a virtual scanner, in an operating system of the first information processing apparatus. The second program causes the first information processing apparatus to transmit a scan command of the first protocol to the external scanner, and receive a read result from the external scanner by the first protocol through the communication interface. The external scanner reads a document in response to receipt of the scan command transmitted from the information processing apparatus.