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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2019
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Toshiya Miyai, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device forming an image indicated by print data on a recording sheet; and a control device including a processor and functioning, through the processor executing a control program, as a controller configured to: extract text contained in the print data to determine a kind of a language of the text extracted; determine, for each determined kind of the language, whether to record the text consisting of the language of the determined kind; and when determining that the text is to be recorded, cause the image forming device to image form the text consisting of the language of the determined kind on the recording sheet, and, when determining that the text is not to be recorded, not to cause the image forming device to image form the text consisting of the language of the determined kind on the recording sheet.