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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
May. 07, 2018
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Koji Tagaki, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a display device, an input device configured to receive a user operation, a preview processing unit configured to display as preview on the display device a document image as an output target, and an output processing unit configured to output the document image. Further, the preview processing unit (a) detects an area surrounded by a predetermined specific color in the document image and displays the document image as preview on the display device so as to make the detected area editable, and (b) add a text specified by the user operation in the detected area in accordance with the user operation. The output processing unit outputs the document image in which the text was added.