An output method and an output device include steps below. A first electronic device sends a file to a server and generates a piece of verification information corresponding to the file. A second electronic device receives the piece of verification information. An output device reads the piece of verification information, and obtains the file from the server according to the piece of verification information. The output device receives a first verification code via a user interface, determines whether the first verification code matches the piece of verification information, and outputs the paper document of the file when the first verification code matches the piece of verification information. The output device sends a second verification code, generated according to encode data of the file, to the second electronic device for a further verification and deletes the file after the output device output the paper document of the file.

A method of automatically displaying a predetermined set of print attributes of a print job, the method including receiving an image of a first printed sheet, the first printed sheet including one or more at least partial machine-readable codes, the one or more at least partial machine-readable codes encoded with data related to the predetermined set of print attributes, decoding the data from the one or more at least partial machine-readable codes, determining if the data includes all of the print attributes in the predetermined set of print attributes, and if the data includes all of the print attributes in the predetermined set of print attributes, displaying the data using augmented reality (AR) over the first printed sheet.

A multifunction peripheral system includes a server and a multifunction peripheral. The server is configured to access printing information from a first electronic device, and is further configured to generate printing verification information corresponding to the printing information. The multifunction peripheral has a communication connection with the server. The multifunction peripheral is configured to access a detectable identifier, which comprises information to be verified, from a second electronic device, and the multifunction peripheral further configured to ask the server the printing information according to the detectable identifier. When the information to be verified is identical to the printing verification information, the server provides the printing information to the multifunction peripheral.

Synchronization techniques with state transformation are described. The synchronization techniques may include storing a data object and metadata associated with the data object at a computing device. The data object can be stored in a first representative state at the computing device. The techniques may further involve receiving user input to synchronize the data object into a second representative state at a remote computing device, automatically transforming the data object from the first representative state into the second representative state, and synchronizing the data object to a remote data object stored at the remote computing device. The remote data object can be stored in the second representative state at the remote computing device.

An output method and an output device include steps below. A first electronic device sends a file to a server and generates a piece of verification information corresponding to the file. A second electronic device receives the piece of verification information. An output device reads the piece of verification information, and obtains the file from the server according to the piece of verification information. The output device receives a first verification code via a user interface, determines whether the first verification code matches the piece of verification information, and outputs the paper document of the file when the first verification code matches the piece of verification information. The output device sends a second verification code, generated according to encode data of the file, to the second electronic device for a further verification and deletes the file after the output device output the paper document of the file.

A multifunction peripheral system includes a server and a multifunction peripheral. The server is configured to access printing information from a first electronic device, and is further configured to generate printing verification information corresponding to the printing information. The multifunction peripheral has a communication connection with the server. The multifunction peripheral is configured to access a detectable identifier, which comprises information to be verified, from a second electronic device, and the multifunction peripheral further configured to ask the server the printing information according to the detectable identifier. When the information to be verified is identical to the printing verification information, the server provides the printing information to the multifunction peripheral.

An output method and an output device are provided. The output method includes the following steps. A first electronic device sends a file to a server and generates a piece of verification information corresponding to the file. A second electronic device receives the piece of verification information and displays the piece of verification information on screen. An output device reads the piece of verification information displayed by the second electronic device, and obtains the file from the server according to the piece of verification information so as to output a paper document of the file.

An output method and an output device are provided. The output method includes the following steps. A first electronic device sends a file to a server and generates a piece of verification information corresponding to the file. A second electronic device receives the piece of verification information and displays the piece of verification information on screen. An output device reads the piece of verification information displayed by the second electronic device, and obtains the file from the server according to the piece of verification information so as to output a paper document of the file.

Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data of an original document including plural pages, a feature amount obtaining unit that obtains a predetermined feature amount for each of the pages based on the obtained image data, a detection unit that compares a feature amount of one page on which identification information for dividing the plural pages in units of pages is formed with a feature amount of the other pages and detects the identification information on a page having a feature amount similar to a feature amount of the one page from among the other pages, and a division unit that divides the plural pages in units of pages based on the detected identification information.

A testing apparatus configured to connect to an image forming apparatus includes a controller having one or more processors which executes instructions stored in one or more memories, the controller being configured to extract a character string from a designated area on a scanned image acquired by scanning a printed product with an image printed thereon based on a job, acquire information about the job, and perform testing on the printed product based on the acquired information about the job by comparing the character string extracted by an extraction unit with a correct value referred to from reference data.