The systems and methods presented here completely separate a non-user pattern from the user jobs being printed. In fact, depending on the number of images in the job and the number of patterns provided by the manufacturer or press operator, the patterns may appear on different images of the job each time the job is printed. This is because the image marks are generated and processed according to the configuration of ROUS, independent of the user jobs being printed.

An apparatus and method to pick a magnetizable object from a group of magnetizable objects having substantially uniform and predetermined respective sizes, the apparatus including an elongated magnet having a major axis, and a rigid dielectric material having an aperture, the rigid dielectric material positioned relative to the elongated magnet in order to present an opening through the rigid dielectric material along a line collinear with the major axis. The rigid dielectric material is movable, relative to the elongated magnet, in a direction parallel to the major axis between a first position at which at least a portion of the elongated magnet is within the aperture, and a second position at which no part of the elongated magnet is within the aperture.

An image processing apparatus includes: a code detector configured to detect a code included in image data, and a number-of-pixels converting unit configured to increase the number of pixels of the image data by converting the number of pixels of the image data by a factor of N, wherein, when N is a non-integer, the number-of-pixels converting unit converts the number of pixels in a first region including the code in the image data by an integer factor and converts the number of pixels in a second region different from the first region in the image data by a factor of N.

An application that transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains an image to be edited; a print setting obtaining unit that obtains print setting information; a display control unit that displays an image edit screen including the image and a print range frame based on the print setting information; an arrangement edit accepting unit that accepts an edit operation of arrangement of the image in the image edit screen; an output image data generating unit that generates image data in which a predetermined image is combined in a region where no image is arranged in the print range frame, in response to input of a print instruction after the edit operation; and a print job transmitting unit that transmits the generated image data and the print setting information to the image forming apparatus as the print job.

The systems and methods presented here completely separate a non-user pattern from the user jobs being printed. In fact, depending on the number of images in the job and the number of patterns provided by the manufacturer or press operator, the patterns may appear on different images of the job each time the job is printed. This is because the image marks are generated and processed according to the configuration of ROUS, independent of the user jobs being printed.

To enable a user to, in a case where the user scans a plurality of documents en bloc and acquires an image in units of documents by using a multi-cropping function and metadata thereon, reacquire them efficiently. A configuration is designed so that scan processing can be performed again in a preview display of the image corresponding to each document obtained by multi-cropping and it is made possible for a user to perform the scan again in a case where the user checks the scanned contents by the preview display and determines that the scan has not been performed accurately. Then, for the scanned image obtained by the re-scan, necessary analysis processing is performed only for the document for which it becomes necessary to perform the scan again.

A controller of an image processing apparatus performs one or both of an enlargement process and a conversion process when a coded image in which information is coded is included in the image data. The enlargement process is a process of pasting an enlarged coded image instead of the coded image on the image data. The conversion process is a process of pasting decoded information instead of the coded image.

An information processing apparatus includes: a display section that displays an image; an instruction section that instructs an operator on information to be input; a detecting section that detects a designation position on the display section on which the image is displayed; and an input section that inputs input information corresponding to the information to be input instructed by the instruction section, in a region determined by a designation start position and a designation end position in the image.

An information processing apparatus includes: a display section that displays an image; an instruction section that instructs an operator on information to be input; a detecting section that detects a designation position on the display section on which the image is displayed; and an input section that inputs input information corresponding to the information to be input instructed by the instruction section, in a region determined by a designation start position and a designation end position in the image.

An image processing apparatus includes: a code detector configured to detect a code included in image data, and a number-of-pixels converting unit configured to increase the number of pixels of the image data by converting the number of pixels of the image data by a factor of N, wherein, when N is a non-integer, the number-of-pixels converting unit converts the number of pixels in a first region including the code in the image data by an integer factor and converts the number of pixels in a second region different from the first region in the image data by a factor of N.