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

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a reading unit configured to read an image of a document and to generate image data;
a registration unit configured to register at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data;
a unit configured to set 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 unit configured to change 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 registration unit registers the at least one setting value.