SECRET FORM PROCESSING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set an entire area having entries on a secret form, to determines whether the entries in the above area are charts or letters, and to delete a portion to be kept in secrecy on the secret form by filling the portion with ink by means of an inkjet printer, using the above setting and discrimination information. SOLUTION: A form detection sensor 11 is disposed in the vicinity of the aperture of a reception means 1. When the sensor 11 detects insertion of the form of a secret form P, form feed rollers 12a, 12b, 12c are driven, and the form of the secret form P is passed through at a predetermined speed in the vicinity of a scanner 13, and subsequently, an inkjet printer 14 which is to be a filling and deletion means. The form is then stored into a storage means 2 by means of an arbitrary guide. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI