Patent ID: 8289581

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a transfer job performing device that performs a transfer job for transferring image information input to the image processing apparatus to at least one destination; a character information extracting device that carries out a character recognition process to the input image information and extracts character information from the input image information based on the character recognition process, the extracted character information indicating at least a specific character string represented in the input image information and indicating a security level of the input image information; a history information generating device that generates history information indicative of a result of execution of the transfer job by said transfer job performing device; a recording device that records the extracted character information instead of the input image information itself in association with the generated history information in a storage device; a display device that displays for perusal at least one of at least one piece of history information recorded in the storage device and at least one piece of character information recorded in association with the history information; a first determining device that determines whether particular character information is included in the extracted character information; and a second determining device that determines whether execution of the transfer job by said transfer job performing device is inhibited or permitted in accordance with a result of the determination by said first determining device, wherein the particular character information is one of character information for inhibiting the execution of the transfer job and character information for permitting the execution of the transfer job.