Patent ID: 11956390
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A control method for an image forming apparatus equipped with a reading unit that reads an image of a document and generates image data, the control method comprising:
a registration step of registering at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data;
a step of setting whether to enable or disable a function that prevents a user from setting a setting value that does not comply with a PDF/A standard as a setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data; and
a step of changing a setting value that does not comply with the PDF/A standard among the at least one setting value registered so as to comply with the PDF/A standard in enabling the function in a state where the at least one setting value is registered in the registration step.