Patent ID: 8760687
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A document management method of an image forming apparatus having an image scanner to scan a document and generate a scanned image, the method comprising: generating the scanned image by scanning a document having a bar code; determining whether to perform an optical character recognition (OCR) on the scanned image by using bar code information of the generated scanned image; extracting character information of the document by performing the OCR on the scanned image according to the determination result; setting a file name of the scanned image using the bar code information and/or the extracted character information; generating a plurality of directories corresponding to a plurality of categories using the bar code information and/or the extracted character information, the plurality of categories being classified according to predetermined levels; and storing the scanned image in one of the generated categories as the set file name including information of the generated plurality of directories.