Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and non-transitory recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorAkira Yokoyama
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document, and display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.
Claims9
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a scanner to read a document;
- a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner;
- and
- circuitry configured to:
- identify a user;
- send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
- determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
- search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document;
- and
- display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.
An image reading method comprising:
- reading a document by a scanner;
- identifying a user;
- storing an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner in a memory;
- sending the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
- determining whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
- searching a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document;
- and
- displaying, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.
A non-transitory recording medium storing multiple instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method, comprising:
- reading a document by a scanner;
- identifying a user;
- storing an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner in a memory;
- sending the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
- and
- determining whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
- searching a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document;
- and
- displaying, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.