IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• Main Author: HIROTANI TAKUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 18.01.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method, image forming program, and recording medium with which information on document data can be easily managed.SOLUTION: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: management tag creation means for creating a management tag corresponding to first document data; composition means for creating second document data obtained by inserting the management tag into the first document data; printing means for printing the second document data; storage means for storing management information including the management tag; reading means for reading the management tag from the document printed by the printing means; means for painting out a printing portion of the document after the management tag has been read by the reading means; and determination means for determining whether or not the printing portion of the document has been painted out by collating the management information with the management tag read by the reading means. 【課題】文書データの情報管理を簡便に行える画像形成装置、画像形成システム、画像形成方法、画像形成プログラム及び記録媒体を提供すること。【解決手段】本発明は、第一の文書データに対応する管理タグを生成する管理タグ生成手段と、前記第一の文書データに前記管理タグを挿入した第二の文書データを生成する合成手段と、前記第二の文書データを印刷する印刷手段と、前記管理タグを含む管理情報を記憶する記憶手段と、前記印刷手段で印刷した文書から前記管理タグを読取る読取手段と、前記読取手段にて前記管理タグを読取った後、前記文書の印刷箇所を塗潰す手段と、前記管理情報と、前記読取手段にて読取った前記管理タグとを照合することで、前記文書の印刷箇所を塗潰したか否かを判断する判断手段と、を有する画像形成装置を提供する。【選択図】図３