An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an input of a value of an item of an attribute from a user, the attribute being to be assigned to a form shown by an acquired first image; specify a region in which the value of the item is shown in the first image; generate a rule for extracting the value of the item by using at least one of an element at a predetermined distance from the specified region or coordinates of the region in the first image; and extract the value of the item from a form shown by an acquired second image by using the rule.

An image forming apparatus includes a reading device that reads an image from a document, a storage device, and a central processing unit (CPU). The storage device stores therein an authentication kit, a scan extension kit, and a specific information collection program. The CPU executes the authentication kit to function as an authentication unit, the scan extension kit to function as a character recognition unit, and the specific information collection program to function as a specific information collection unit. The specific information collection unit acquires information of the user for which authentication passes from a user information management system that manages the information of the user. The specific information includes a character that represents a value of a specific item indicated in a specific document as the document and that is recognized by the character recognition unit; and the information of the user acquired from the user information management system.

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a marking extraction circuit that extracts, from a script image including a plurality of markings respectively superimposed on a plurality of character strings, the plurality of markings; a same-character-string identification circuit that identifies the same character string out of the plurality of character strings on which the markings are respectively superimposed; and a symbol determination circuit that allocates the same symbol to the same character string and allocates different symbols to different character strings.

According to one embodiment, an image processing method causes a computer to function as an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data. The control unit performs a control process of detecting a character string of each color included in the image data and associating the character string with the color using the character string of the color.

The data input support apparatus in the present disclosure acquires item information relating to a combination of an item name and an item value described in a business form image based on character recognition results of the business form image, and displays an item value display area and an image preview display area having an overview image display area and an enlarged image display area. The item value display area displays an item value of an item name corresponding to a specific item type from the item information. The overview image display area displays the entire business form image or an overview image in which the displayed item value and the item name are highlighted. The enlarged image display area displays an enlarged image including the displayed item value. The display unit switches and displays display contents in the image preview display area in accordance with the acquired item information.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify a type of a target document to be processed from a read image obtained by reading the target document; refer to specific-character information, the specific-character information being information on a specific character set for each type of document in association with a specific image that is to be contained in the document, to obtain a specific character corresponding to the type of the target document and associated with a specific image that is to be contained in the target document; and determine whether an image that matches a search condition set in advance for the obtained specific character is extractable from the read image, to determine a presence or absence of a specific image that is to be contained in the target document in association with the obtained specific character.

An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing one or more characters included in image data and acquiring character information, a display unit configured to display one or more characters indicated by the character information acquired by the character recognition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to a folder the name of which is a character selected by a user from among the one or more characters displayed by the display unit.

A system includes an image forming apparatus, a first document server apparatus, and a key server apparatus, the image forming apparatus being configured to determine whether document data is private or public, when the document data is determined to be private, then determine a level accessible to the document data, and transmit level information indicating the level and the document data to the first document server apparatus, the first document server apparatus being configured to receive the level information and the document data from the image forming apparatus, generate a document ID for identifying the document data, store the document data in association with the document ID, transmit the document ID to the image forming apparatus, determine an accessible user ID that identifies a user accessible to the document data based on the level information, generate a public key and a private key used to encrypt the document data.

An image processing apparatus, system, method, and control program stored in a non-transitory recording medium are provided each of which obtains image data of a document; determines an arrangement pattern of each of a plurality of character strings in the image data, based on positional relationship of the plurality of character strings; and generates a text data file including the plurality of character strings each being arranged according to the arrangement pattern that is determined.

According to one embodiment, an image reading device includes a scanner and a controller. The scanner can read multiple documents placed together on a document platen and generate image data accordingly. The controller generates individual document image data by cropping a region corresponding to each document on the document platen from the generated image data. When a multi-sided scanning mode or option is selected, the controller associates generated document image data for a front surface of each document with generated document image data for a back surface of the same document to establish a document image data pair for each individual document. When a rotation instruction is received for one piece of document image data in a document image pair, the controller rotates both pieces of document image data in the document image pair together. The rotated document image data pair can then be output together.