Redaction of personal information in document
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsIncheon Park, Jaein Lee, Daehyun Kim
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus includes a user interface device, an image forming job operator, a processor, and a memory. The processor executes instructions to perform a redaction process of redacting personal information displayed on a preview screen of a document through the user interface device of the image forming apparatus and included in the document, show display state information of the personal information, in synchronization with a progress of the redaction process, and control the image forming job operator to perform an image forming job with respect to the document in which the personal information is redacted when the redaction process is completed.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a user interface device;
- an image forming job operator;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor,
- wherein the processor executes the instructions to:
- receive an input to select personal information included in a document and perform a redaction process of redacting the personal information displayed on a preview screen of the document through the user interface device and included in the document,
- designate, throughout the document, personal information having the same string of characters as a character string of the personal information corresponding to the input in response to a format of the personal information corresponding to the input not being identified,
- redact at least one piece of personal information among the designated personal information,
- show display state information of the personal information in synchronization with a progress of the redaction process, the display state information summarizing a current state of redacted personal information, and
- control the image forming job operator to perform an image forming job with respect to the document in which the personal information is redacted based on completing the redaction process.
An operation method of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- displaying a preview screen of a document in a user interface device of an image forming apparatus;
- performing a redaction process of redacting personal information included in the document;
- showing display state information of the personal information on the preview screen in synchronization with a progress of the redaction process, the display state information summarizing a current state of redacted personal information;
- and
- based on completing the redaction process, performing an image forming job with respect to the document in which the personal information is redacted,
- wherein the performing of the redaction process comprises:
- receiving an input to select personal information included in the document;
- identifying a format of the personal information corresponding to the input;
- designating, throughout the document, personal information having a same character string as a character string of the personal information corresponding to the input in response to the format of the personal information corresponding to the input not being identified;
- and
- redacting at least one piece of personal information among the designated personal information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions to display a preview screen of a document in a user interface device of an image forming apparatus;
- instructions to perform a redaction process of redacting personal information included in the document;
- instructions to show display state information of the personal information on the preview screen in synchronization with a progress of the redaction process, the display state information summarizing a current state of redacted personal information;
- and
- instructions to perform an image forming job with respect to the document in which the personal information is redacted based on completing the redaction process,
- wherein the instructions to perform a redaction process comprise:
- instructions to receive an input to select personal information included in the document;
- instructions to identify a format of the personal information corresponding to the input;
- instructions to designate, throughout the document, personal information having a same character string as a character string of the personal information corresponding to the input in response to the format of the personal information corresponding to the input not being identified;
- and
- instructions to redact at least one piece of personal information among the designated personal information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.