An information processing system includes an information input device and an information processing apparatus. The information input device acquires audio information. The information processing apparatus is connected to the information input device via a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that, based on a determination that the audio information acquired by the information input device is incomplete, complements the audio information, converts the audio information into process information, and transmits the process information to a target apparatus.

An information processing apparatus includes plural communication units, a determination unit, and a controller. The plural communication units are configured to be capable of conducting a wireless communication. The determination unit is configured to determine a communication unit from among the plural communication units in accordance with whether a mobile communication terminal that is attempting to conduct a communication is approaching the information processing apparatus. The controller is configured to perform a control so as to start the communication using the communication unit determined by the determination unit.

An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a registration unit configured to register first image data as a template, a character recognition unit configured to recognize one or more character strings included in second image data different from the first image data, a display unit configured to display the one or more character strings recognized by the character recognition a reception unit configured to receive a selection of a character string displayed by the display unit, the selection being made by a user, and a storage unit configured to store the second image data in a folder named with a character string based on the selection received by the reception unit. The display unit does not display, from among of the one or more character strings recognized by the character recognition unit, a character string included in the image data registered by the registration.

An information processing apparatus, communicable with an intermediary apparatus communicable with a target apparatus, includes circuitry configured to receive, from a terminal device communicable with the information processing apparatus, identification information acquired by the terminal device from an external source, receive, from the terminal device, image data input at the terminal device, identify a transmission destination of the received image data, related to a service operation associated with the identification information and to be output from the target apparatus via the intermediary apparatus, based on address information of a transmission source that has transmitted the identification information to the information processing apparatus, and transmit information indicating the transmission destination of the image data to the terminal device.

An image forming apparatus shared by users in multiple groups includes a communication unit, a memory, a user authorizer, an operation unit, a display, an image former, and a controller. When the operation unit accepts a command for forming an image from a first user based on spooled image data of the first user stored in a spool area in the memory after the user authorizer has authorized the first user, the controller causes the display to display, in addition to the spooled image data of the first user, spooled image data received by the communication unit, from other users belonging to the same group as the first user. When the operation unit accepts selection and a print command of the spooled image data, the controller causes the image former to collectively form images based on the selected spooled image data.

A communication apparatus includes a notification device that notifies information, a first LAN interface that connects to a network, a second LAN interface that connects to a network, transmits a DHCP discovery packet via a LAN cable when the LAN cable is connected to the first LAN interface, and determines whether to provide a notification and to notify information based on a determination to provide a notification based on a DHCP offer packet transmitted in response to the DHCP discovery packet and network information used to communicate via the second LAN interface.

An information processing system includes an information input device and an information processing apparatus. The information input device acquires audio information. The information processing apparatus is connected to the information input device via a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that, based on a determination that the audio information acquired by the information input device is incomplete, complements the audio information, converts the audio information into process information, and transmits the process information to a target apparatus.

An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.

An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a registration unit configured to register first image data as a template, a character recognition unit configured to recognize one or more character strings included in second image data different from the first image data, a display unit configured to display the one or more character strings recognized by the character recognition a reception unit configured to receive a selection of a character string displayed by the display unit, the selection being made by a user, and a storage unit configured to store the second image data in a folder named with a character string based on the selection received by the reception unit. The display unit does not display, from among of the one or more character strings recognized by the character recognition unit, a character string included in the image data registered by the registration.

An image forming apparatus including: a wireless communication circuitry configured to make a wireless communication with a portable information processing device including a display unit; and a computer and a memory storing a program causing the computer to execute: a recognition step recognizing a portable information processing device that is within a communicable range through communication via the wireless communication circuitry; a job setting step receiving a job setting; and a job control step receiving a start instruction and executing a job in response to the start instruction, wherein the job setting step receives the job setting, which is made in the portable information processing device, via the wireless communication circuitry after the portable information processing device falls within the communicable range, and the job control step accepts reception from the portable information processing device of an instruction to rearrange the order of the execution of the job among jobs which await their starts.