Information providing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium having stored information for each marker image identification information

Abstract

An information providing apparatus includes following components. A storing unit stores marker image identification information, an image feature of a marker placed area, related information, and disclosure limitation information indicating whether the related information is to be disclosed to specific users in an image information memory. A user information memory stores user identification information identifying a user and privilege information indicating a privilege of the user. An obtaining unit obtains, from an information terminal, user identification information and a target image. A search unit searches the image information memory for marker image identification information of a marker image having an image feature similar to that included in the target image. A providing unit provides, if the corresponding disclosure limitation information indicates limited disclosure and the corresponding privilege information indicates that access to the retrieved related information is permitted, the corresponding related information to the information terminal.