Patent ID: 7665679
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: B02C,G06F,G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A document management system, comprising: a document management apparatus that manages a document ID by associating the document ID with a storage time of the document, and that checks the storage time of the document, in response to an inquiry about a permission of destroying the document having a designated document ID, and that gives a permission of destroying the document when the storage time thereof has expired; and a document destruction apparatus including a mode selection unit that selects one of a first destruction mode and a second destruction mode and an execution unit that destroys the document according to a destruction mode selected by the mode selection unit; the execution unit being configured to destroy the document without reading the document ID thereof in the first destruction mode; and in the second destruction mode, the execution unit being configured to read the document ID, to inquire the permission of destroying the document of the document management apparatus by designating the read document ID, and to destroy the document when the document management apparatus gives the permission of destroying the document.