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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2010
Takeshi Tani, Osaka, JP;
Terumi Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Tani, Osaka, JP;
Terumi Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus having various and may functions, in order to easily set a function based on a scanned document, a CPU of an MFP executes a program including: when a document is scanned by a user (YES at S), the step of displaying a preview image of the scanned document (S); the step of OCR-processing the document data (S); when the scanned document has been registered in a document-by-document recommended functions list (YES at S), the step of reading the document-by-document recommended functions list from an HDD and displaying the document type and recommended menu on a touch-panel display (S); the step of setting the function registered in the recommended functions list in the MFP (S) unless the setting of recommended menu is changed (NO at S); and the step of executing copy/transmission process based on the set function (S).
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