Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Keiichi Takashima

Takeyuki Nagashima

Kiyotaka Miura

Hiroki Koyano

Tsunehiro Tsukada

Hitoshi Osaka

Hiroyasu Miyazawa

Kenta Hara

Keiichiro Yuasa

Koichiro Matsuzaki

An information processing apparatus obtains scan images by collectively scanning a plurality of documents, each including page(s), divides the scan images into divided scan images corresponding to respective documents, converts the divided scan images into formatted files, thereby generating a plurality of files, saving the files individually, manages a common file identifier, ordinal position information of files, and identifying information of the individually saved files in association with each other, and displays, if a user instructs correcting one of the individually saved files, thumbnails of page images corresponding to the individually saved plurality of documents identified by the information managed in association with the same identifier as an identifier associated with information identifying the one file to be corrected. The thumbnails are displayed, based on the ordinal position information of the plurality of files, in an order in which the pages forming the plurality of files were scanned.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A print control apparatus may include a determination unit, a division unit, and a rearrangement unit to process print data impositioned by an application program. The determination unit determines whether at least one of an impositioned appearance indicating an arrangement of logical pages in respective physical pages of the impositioned print data, and a print output attribute, which is an attribute of an output of the impositioned print data, satisfies a division condition set in advance. If the determining unit determines that the impositioned appearance or the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the division unit divides the impositioned print data in logical-page unit. The rearrangement unit rearranges divided logical pages in an order according to the impositioned appearance. If neither the impositioned appearance nor the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the impositioned print data is prevented from being divided in logical-page unit.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium

A storage medium for storing a program that switches a plurality of printing apparatuses by changing a port of a logical printer for printout and is executed by a computer having a storage unit configured to associate the port with device settings for storing it, the computer comprising a reflecting unit configured to acquire the stored device settings corresponding to the changed port to reflect the stored device settings in the device settings held by the logical printer if the port is changed; and a changing unit configured to change print settings so as not to be inconsistent with the device settings to be reflected by the reflecting unit.

Apparatuses and methods for switching between printing apparatuses

A printing system includes a host computer and a printer. The host computer includes a CPU that requests to the printer a storing job list of storing jobs and determines a plurality of jobs to be collectively printed and a printing order of the plurality of jobs from the received storing job list. The CPU then creates a job list based on the determination and transmits the job list to the printer. The printer includes a CPU that stores the storing jobs, acquires the storing job list according to the request, and transmits the storing job list to the host computer. The printer further includes a printing unit that prints the storing jobs corresponding to the job list.

Printing system, control method thereof, and storage medium

Disclosed is a printing control apparatus for acquiring print data having attribute information stored by an application, and creating output data, which is output to a printer, using the print data acquired. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to refer to the attribute information included in the print data and acquiring settings information, which satisfies a condition, from at least one item of settings information that has been stored previously in a storage area; a generating unit configured to generate final print settings by superimposing print settings, which have been set in the settings information acquired by the acquisition unit and satisfying the condition, on print settings that have been set in a printer driver; and a creating unit configured to create output data in accordance with the final print settings generated by the generating unit.

Printing control apparatus using a print setting, method and medium

A template to be estimated is selected from a template list containing a plurality of types of templates for which usage conditions for layout control of content data in a page are respectively set. The usage condition of the selected template is estimated. A template used for layout control of the data in the page is decided from the template list on the basis of the estimation result. Layout control of the content data in the page is executed using the template.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

An information processing device is provided that combines original image data and coded image data in a mutually non-overlapping manner. The information processing device generates coded image data to be combined with original image data. Next, the information process device determines whether or not the object region within the original image data and the generated coded image data region are overlapping. If it is determined that an overlap occurs, the information processing device modifies the shape of the coded image data region in accordance with instructions from a user. Next, the information processing device combines and prints the changed coded image data and the original image data.

Method for controlling the combining of original image data and coded image data

In a system for transmitting print data from a server apparatus for forming the print data to a client apparatus and performing print based on the print data, it is an object of the invention to improve security of printed matter by inhibiting reprint using the print data stored in the client apparatus and improve operability upon reprinting.

Data processing method, program, and data processing system for reprinting template and slip data

An object of this invention is to implement a user-friendly proxy process in a network system in which a plurality of devices connect to each other. According to this invention, an information processing method for an information processing apparatus which manages a license for a job process and communicably connects to a plurality of devices that are to execute a process for a job whose license is held includes a step of selecting, from the plurality of devices, a device which is to execute a proxy process of a job, a step of, when the selected device does not have a license to execute the process of the job, outputting the license as a file, and a step of monitoring whether the selected device has executed the proxy process of the job using the file, and when the proxy process is complete, requesting return of the output file.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and proxy method for connection of information processing apparatuses

A page in which field areas are laid out is displayed on the basis of a template. A field area to be adjusted is selected from the field areas in the page. The field area is adjusted on the basis of adjustment operation to the selected field area. Adjustment page information on the page in which the field area has been adjusted is stored in addition to page information on the displayed page.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable medium displaying a layout result on the basis of adjustment record information stored with respect to a predetermined record

There is provided a form processing method enabling overlaying of field data without processing the field data, in form processing for overlaying field data onto a field in a form. In particular, the form processing method includes a step of setting an input picture for each of the fields as field attribute information, the input picture being composed of characters indicating a format of field data to be overlaid. In the method, picture words are cut (step S) based on the input picture and field data words are cut (step S), and the field data is overlaid onto a field (step S).

Form processing apparatus, form processing method, recording medium and program

There is provided a format processing method for overlaying data of a file located on an Internet server onto a predetermined field in a form. In particular, there is provided a form processing method for reading a field data file storing data to be overlaid onto a defined field in a form, and overlaying data of the field data file onto a field in the form, the form processing method including: a determination step of determining, if data of the field data file is description specifying an external file, whether the description of the data is in a URL format (step S); an overlaying step of downloading the external file in a network server in compliance with Internet protocols (step S) and overlaying the data of the downloaded external file onto the field in the form if the description is determined to be in a URL format at the determination step (step S).

Form processing device, and form processing method and program

A spooling method for sequentially printing a plurality of documents in which a server spools print data supplied from another information processing system on the same network. To realize this method, an output control apparatus for receiving data of a job unit input from a data source and outputting from an output unit data of the job unit in accordance with a predetermined order, includes a setting unit for setting an order of outputting data and a control unit for outputting from the output unit data of the job unit received from the data source, in accordance with the output order set by the setting unit.

Output control apparatus and method and storage medium storing computer readable program

Printer spooler output apparatus and method with computer program and memory storage medium

There is disclosed an information processing apparatus comprising a setting device for setting, for each predetermined unit, attribute information for a character pattern to be printed in overlay with a form pattern, based on externally entered setting instruction information, a discrimination unit for discriminating whether separation information is set for each predetermined unit, separately from the attribute information and a print control unit adapted, when the discrimination unit identifies that the separation information is set, to generate a character pattern for the predetermined unit for which the separation information is set, based on the attribute information, and to cause overlay printing of the character pattern and the form pattern.

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Keiichi Takashima