An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and circuitry that controls the image forming device. The image forming device forms an invisible image with an invisible material on the recording medium and forms a visible image with a visible material on the invisible image. Each of first and second adhesion amounts includes respective adhesion amounts of the visible material and the invisible material per unit area in a portion, in which the visible image is formed on the invisible image, of the composite image. The second adhesion amount is smaller than the first adhesion amount. The controller adjusts the amount of the invisible material included in the second adhesion amount to be smaller than that included in the first adhesion amount, to cause the image forming device to form the image according to the second adhesion amount.

Identification information corresponding to a network resource is extracted from input document data. It is determined whether access to the network resource is appropriate based on the identification information. Based on a result of determination, the output of the document data is restricted, or at least part of the identification information is changed, and the document data is output.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and circuitry that controls the image forming device. The image forming device forms an invisible image with an invisible material on the recording medium and forms a visible image with a visible material on the invisible image. Each of first and second adhesion amounts includes respective adhesion amounts of the visible material and the invisible material per unit area in a portion, in which the visible image is formed on the invisible image, of the composite image. The second adhesion amount is smaller than the first adhesion amount. The controller adjusts the amount of the invisible material included in the second adhesion amount to be smaller than that included in the first adhesion amount, to cause the image forming device to form the image according to the second adhesion amount.

A data processing apparatus includes a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor acquires data that is input externally as input data, detects link information that is included in the input data and represents a position of another data on a network, in the case where the link information is detected, determines a risk level of the other data represented by the link information, in the case where the risk level of the other data is determined to be equal to or higher than a predetermined risk level, produces correction data by processing a portion representing the link information in the input data, and outputs the correction data externally instead of the input data.

An automatic matching system for loan/credit operation and preferably for loan operation, comprising a loan/credit document verification and generation unit, an optional loan/credit document privacy data processing unit, an artificial intelligence loan/credit matching unit, and a loan/credit offer and auction unit operatively connected with each other; wherein the loan/credit offer and auction unit is configured to notify each lender of a group of potential lender entities and/or companies of a first loan/credit operation and to transmit a first loan/credit document and/or a verified second loan/credit document, so as to require each lender to provide a loan offer for the first loan/credit operation, and initiate an online first auction based on the loan offer, and generate and update in real time an online offer ranking table according to initial and revised offers of each lender during auction period, and determine at least one top ranked lenders and an ultimate accepted/selected lender to proceed with and complete the first loan/credit operation.

Displaying an authentication interface on an operation panel associated with a printing device, the operation panel including a plurality of authentication areas. Receiving a user authentication request. Detecting a particular authentication pattern associated with the user authentication request. Retrieving a registered authentication pattern associated with the user. Comparing the particular authentication pattern with the registered authentication pattern. Determining, based on the comparing, whether the user authentication request is authorized. If the user authentication request is authorized, retrieving a first electronic document associated with the user, and printing the first electronic document. If the user authentication request is not authorized, determining whether the first electronic document includes a confidential object, obtaining, in response to determining the first electronic document includes a confidential object, an alternative object associated with the confidential object, and generating a second electronic document by replacing the confidential object with the alternative object on the first electronic document.

A data processing apparatus includes a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor acquires data that is input externally as input data, detects link information that is included in the input data and represents a position of another data on a network, in the case where the link information is detected, determines a risk level of the other data represented by the link information, in the case where the risk level of the other data is determined to be equal to or higher than a predetermined risk level, produces correction data by processing a portion representing the link information in the input data, and outputs the correction data externally instead of the input data.

Identification information corresponding to a network resource is extracted from input document data. It is determined whether access to the network resource is appropriate based on the identification information. Based on a result of determination, the output of the document data is restricted, or at least part of the identification information is changed, and the document data is output.

An image formation device includes an image formation section that forms an image on a transfer medium, and a control section that acquires a read image for which the image formed on the transfer medium is read, the control section has a function of determining abnormality regarding the read image, and a function of performing masking processing on the read image in a case where user content is included in the read image.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge tray, a sheet discharge unit positioned between the image forming unit and the sheet discharge tray to discharge a first sheet after an image has been formed on the first sheet by the image forming unit, onto the sheet discharge tray, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to cause a second sheet, which is a light blocking sheet, to be discharged onto the first sheet after the first sheet has been discharged onto the sheet discharge tray.