Patent ID: 7581114
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: G07C,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing system including: a scanner for reading a document image; a terminal apparatus connected to said scanner in a manner permitting communications so as to transmit an operation instruction to said scanner; and a server including associated information storing means for storing associated information in which unprocessed document information and fingerprint information are associated with each other, the server being connected to said scanner and said terminal apparatus in a manner permitting communications, wherein said scanner comprises: said terminal apparatus comprises: when the associated information newly generated by the scanner is stored in the associated information storing means of the server, or when the document image information read by the document image reading means and the fingerprint information read by the first fingerprint information reading means matches the document image information and the fingerprint information contained in the associated information of the past time, respectively, fingerprint information collating means for collating the fingerprint information stored in said first fingerprint information storing means with the second fingerprint information read by said second fingerprint information reading means by means of communications between said scanner and said terminal apparatus, and operation permitting means for permitting the operation of said scanner in response to the operation instruction inputted through said terminal apparatus on the basis of the result of collation in said fingerprint information collating means are provided either in said scanner or in said terminal apparatus, or alternatively any one of said fingerprint information collating means and said operation permitting means is provided in said scanner while the other one is provided in said terminal apparatus, and when the operation is permitted by the operation permitting means and a reading operation of a document is completed by the scanner, or when a predetermined time has elapsed before the reading operation is completed, the associated information generated and stored in the associated information storing means of the server for the document is deleted together with the fingerprint information stored in the scanner and the terminal device.