Patent ID: 9471841
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An electronic document generation system comprising: an image forming apparatus configured to generate a scanned image of an original document; and an external terminal configured to receive image data of the scanned image from the image forming apparatus, and generate an electronic document based on the scanned image, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a divided data generation unit configured to divide the scanned image into a plurality of areas and generate a plurality of divided image data; a determination unit configured to determine whether each of the plurality of divided image data is processing target data of related processing related to generation of the electronic document; and a communication unit configured to transit the plurality of divided image data to the external terminal, of the plurality of divided image data, the communication unit transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data at an earlier point in time, and transmits, to the external terminal, divided image data that is determined not to be the processing target data after the divided image data that is determined to be the processing target data are transmitted, and the external terminal includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a processing result of the related processing of preferential data which are divided image data of the plurality of divided image data determined to be the processing target data and transmitted at an earlier point in time from the image forming apparatus; and a document generation unit configured to generate the electronic document on the basis of the processing result and the plurality of divided image data.