An image forming apparatus that is capable of wireless communication with an operation device and that can be operated by the operation device via the wireless communication, the image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit configured to perform image formation on a sheet based on a print execution instruction sent from the operation device via the wireless communication; a reading unit configured to perform reading of an image formed on the sheet based on a scan execution instruction sent from the operation device via the wireless communication; and a controller that, during a period of time from the time one user logs in the image forming apparatus until the user logs out, (1) is configured to prohibit the print execution instruction using an operation device by other user who has logged in using the operation device, and (2) is configured to permit the scan execution instruction using the operation device.

An image forming apparatus (100) extracts from first image data (11) second image data (12), which is image data of a document, and accepts operation for selecting either a first preview image (71) corresponding to the first image data (11) or a second preview image (72) corresponding to the second image data (12). The image forming apparatus (100) outputs, when the first preview image (71) is selected, the first image data (11) and, when the second preview image (72) is selected, the second image data (12).

A method for selectively scanning, by a scanning unit including a processor and a memory, a plurality of pages from a document includes the step of receiving, by the scanning unit associated with a Multi-Function Printer (MFP), a user input indicating a plurality of pages to be scanned from the document, the user input including one of a page range or a page skip interval. The method also includes processing, by the scanning unit, the user input for selectively scanning the plurality of pages from the document.

An information processing apparatus includes a feeding unit that feeds a document placed on a document placement unit, a reception unit that receives an execution instruction, a first reading unit that reads an image of the fed document to generate first image data, a second reading unit that reads an image of a document placed on a platen to generate second image data, an execution unit that, based on the reception unit receiving a single execution instruction, executes first processing in which the first reading unit reads the image of the fed document to generate the first image data, and second processing in which the second reading unit reads the image of the document placed on the platen to generate the second image data, and a storage unit that executes processing for storing the first image data and the second image data.

An image processing device includes an image reader that reads an image, a first determiner that determines whether character crushing occurs when the image is binarized, a second determiner that determines a rate of a photographic region in the image, and a controller that performs conversion into monochrome N-gradation image data based on determination results of the first and second determiners.

In accordance with an embodiment, an image reading apparatus sets a scan speed corresponding to an operating speed input by the operation panel. The image reading apparatus executes a scan job at the set scan speed. In addition, the image reading apparatus updates a scan counter in accordance with the number of pages of an image read at the set scan speed.

An inspection device includes a processor configured to use original image data as correct image data, and in a case where a first inspection of determining quality of read image data as an inspection target is performed using the correct image data, the read image data being obtained by reading an image-formed matter obtained by forming the original image data on a recording medium, perform a second inspection on a contour portion included in the read image data as the inspection target, the second inspection using read image data obtained based on the original image data, as the correct image data.

A non-transitory storage medium stores a program set readable by a computer of a first information processing apparatus. The program set including a first program and a second program. The first program causes the first information processing apparatus to start the second program, and register the started second program, as a virtual scanner, in an operating system of the first information processing apparatus. The second program causes the first information processing apparatus to transmit a scan command of the first protocol to the external scanner, and receive a read result from the external scanner by the first protocol through the communication interface. The external scanner reads a document in response to receipt of the scan command transmitted from the information processing apparatus.

An image reading device includes: an area sensor in which color filters of three colors of R, G, and B are arranged in a Bayer array and a light receiving amount is detected by a light receiving element for each color filter; and a hardware processor that: reads a document by using the light receiving elements in a first group in the area sensor, reads the document by using the light receiving elements in a second group in the area sensor, at a region shifted by ½ pixels in a sub-scanning direction from a reading region of the light receiving elements in the first group, and interpolates R-color read data and B-color read data using G-color read data and synthesizes image data having a resolution twice the resolution of the area sensor.

Provided is a system configured to read an original document and submit the generated image data to the education management system, easily. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus includes reading an original document, specifying an assignment, receiving, from a first server, storage location information indicating a storage location in a second server corresponding to the specified assignment, transmitting image data generated by reading of the original document to the storage location indicated based on the received storage location information, and notifying the first server of identification information for identifying the image data.