A system and method for analyzing and rendering captured images and/or manipulating pixels to disrupt the capture process and/or captured images from a screen display thereby rendering all or part of the captured images not readily recognizable to a viewer.

An image forming apparatus has a sheet reading portion, an assimilation surveying portion, a color changing portion, and a printing portion. The sheet reading portion reads image data from a transparent sheet tinted with a predetermined color owned by a user. The assimilation surveying portion looks for, out of printable colors, a particular color that assimilates to the color of the read image data. The color changing portion changes, out of the data of a predetermined document accepted from the user, the color of the data of a concealable character, which is a character concealed when overlaid with the transparent sheet, to the found particular color. The printing portion prints, out of the data of the document, the data of the concealable character in the particular color.

A machine-executable process comprises receiving a request to take a screenshot of a display and receiving page source information of the display. The page source information is compared to stored page source information of displays that have had a screenshot taken to determine whether a screenshot of the display has already been taken. If a screenshot has not already been taken of the display, then a screenshot is taken and the page source information of the display is added to the stored page source information.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an application program which causes an information processing apparatus to perform a control method, the application program supporting scan software which is able to be used with a plurality of image processing apparatuses supplied from a plurality of manufacturers, the control method includes displaying a display screen that receives a setting to hide part of a read image, and outputting reading instructions to an image reading apparatus to perform a scan in accordance with the setting received on the display screen.

Provided is a file viewing system including: a comparison unit that compares biometric information of a comparison target person with biometric information of a person associated with an electronic file; and a viewing prevention unit that performs a process for preventing viewing of the electronic file based on a result of a comparison by the comparison unit.

An image processing apparatus includes an image reading portion, a control portion, and a storage portion. The storage portion stores dictionary data in which, for one kind of item, a plurality of different similar item names are defined. The control portion detects, from image data, a first region expected to individually include either a region of an item name or a region of an item value. For all the similar item names, the control portion calculates their degree of character string similarity to a partial character string obtained by dividing the character string in the first region into substrings and, if the degree of character string similarity of any similar item name to the partial character string is equal to or higher than a threshold value, judges the first region as the region of the item name.

Provided is a file viewing system including: a comparison unit that compares biometric information of a comparison target person with biometric information of a person associated with an electronic file; and a viewing prevention unit that performs a process for preventing viewing of the electronic file based on a result of a comparison by the comparison unit.