Patent ID: 9614984
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
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 generate an electronic document on the basis of image data regarding the scanned image received from the image forming apparatus, the electronic document including the image data and a predetermined processing result of the image data, the image forming apparatus including: an auxiliary data generation unit configured to generate auxiliary data that is used in processing for generating the electronic document and that is used to specify a break of each line of a character string in the scanned image; and a communication unit configured to transmit the auxiliary data to the external terminal, and the external terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive the auxiliary data from the image forming apparatus; and a document generation unit configured to specify the break of each line on the basis of the auxiliary data to generate the electronic document on the basis of the image data regarding the scanned image in cooperation with an external cooperative device that is a different device from the external terminal.