An information processing apparatus obtains scan images by collectively scanning a plurality of documents, each including page(s), divides the scan images into divided scan images corresponding to respective documents, converts the divided scan images into formatted files, thereby generating a plurality of files, saving the files individually, manages a common file identifier, ordinal position information of files, and identifying information of the individually saved files in association with each other, and displays, if a user instructs correcting one of the individually saved files, thumbnails of page images corresponding to the individually saved plurality of documents identified by the information managed in association with the same identifier as an identifier associated with information identifying the one file to be corrected. The thumbnails are displayed, based on the ordinal position information of the plurality of files, in an order in which the pages forming the plurality of files were scanned.

A computer-implemented method for providing a plurality of security schemes and allowing a particular user of a computer system from among a plurality of users of the computer system to select a security scheme to be associated with the user independent of the security scheme selected by a remainder of the plurality of users of the computer system, thereby providing user customizable security to the computer system. At least one of the security schemes is comparatively more secure than another. Selections of security schemes are included with account information of the particular user and are used in connection with authorizing the particular user to use the computer system. First and second users can each select different security schemes based on their personal preferred balance between convenience and security and have their respective access to the computer system managed in relation to the selections included with their respective accounts.

An image forming apparatus includes a control device, acting as a controller that analyzes a source image acquired through a reading operation by the document reading device, detects a response input field included in the source image and a question item corresponding to the response input field, on a basis of predetermined format information, extracts a character string representing the response written in the response input field, and additionally writes the extracted character string, in the character string file already stored in the character string file storage device and designated by the user through the operation device, in association with the character string representing the question item, recorded in the character string file.

An information processing apparatus for transmitting image data input by sequentially reading documents, with limiting an allowable frame size, includes: a transmission controller, wherein, in a case where the document has an irregular size, the transmission controller transmits the image data to a transmission destination in a preset frame of a first frame size until a rear edge of the document is detected, and if a portion, which is not transmitted, of the image data exists when the rear edge of the document is detected, transmits the portion to the transmission destination in a frame of a second frame size smaller than the first frame size so that the transmitting of the portion is finished before a start of transmission of image data corresponding to a next document.

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus. The present image forming apparatus comprises: an input unit for receiving a scanning option; a communication unit for transmitting the received scanning option to another image forming apparatus; a scanning unit for scanning a first document according to the scanning option and generating first scanned data; and a control unit for receiving second scanned data in which a second document is scanned according to the scanning option in another image forming apparatus, and combining the first scanned data and the second scanned data.

There is provided a computer system for reformatting input fax data into output markup language format, the computer system comprising: a fax data interface; a database comprising a plurality of reformatting templates, wherein, in use, the system is configured for: receiving fax data via the fax data interface; selecting a reformatting template from the plurality of reformatting templates, the reformatting template comprising: metadata extraction template data; and output format template data; extracting metadata from the fax data in accordance with the metadata extraction template data; and generating the output markup language format in accordance with the output format template data and the meta data.

When acquired information contains setting information indicating to output first format file, a first output process is executed, wherein a reading process is performed and an inquiry is executed as to whether to continue reading. Every time when receiving an instruction to continue reading, a reading process is performed and the inquiry is executed. A first format file, in which is stored image data that has been generated until when an instruction not to continue reading is received, is outputted. When the acquired information contains setting information to output second format file, a second output process is executed, wherein a reading process is performed, and one or more second format files, whose number is equal to a number of sets of image data generated through the reading process, is outputted such that each set of image data is stored in a corresponding second format file.

An image reading apparatus is configured to: control a scanner unit to optically scans a document and generate scanned data; provide an input screen for allowing a user to input format information defining a particular file format of transmission data that contains the scanned data, wherein the format information includes additional information and wherein the input screen includes a first field for inputting item name of the additional information to be included in the transmission data and a second field for inputting a value of the additional information corresponding to the item name of the additional information; receive the format information input by the user; generate the transmission data, wherein the generated transmission data contains the scanned data and has the format according to the format information received in the receiving processing; and transmit the transmission data to the server through the communication interface.

An example image forming apparatus includes a scan unit to output digital image data of a scanned document, a user interface unit to receive an input of a first destination and a second destination for sending the scanned document, a processor to generate a first file having a first size based on the digital image data, and to generate a second file having a second size, the second size being smaller than the first size, based on the digital image data, a storage unit to store the first file and the second file, and a communication unit to transmit the first file to the first destination and the second file to the second destination.

A controller of a scanner reads an original using a scanning engine to generate first scan data. The first scan data is for a plurality of page images each representing corresponding one or more sheets of a plurality of sheets in the original. The controller transmits scan-related information to a server. The scan-related information is related to page data for first target page images. The controller receives determination information from the server. The determination information indicates that one or more second target page images of the first target page images represent blank pages. The determination information is outputted by a trained machine learning model based on the scan-related information. The controller generates second scan data by excluding blank page data from the first scan data based on the determination information. The controller outputs the second scan data or an object based on the second scan data.