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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Yuya Tagami, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus that adjusts a thin character, a thin line, or the like, which are read in a manuscript, to become identifiable. The blank paper removing part, when the function is set to ON, removes the image data corresponding to the manuscript detected as a blank paper by the blank paper detecting part. The faint character mode part extract a character from the image data and performs faint character adjustment for the data of the extracted character. The control part, in case that the blank paper removing part is set as OFF, if detected a blank paper by the blank paper detecting part, makes perform image processing accompanied with the faint character adjustment by the faint character mode part to the image processing part.