Patent ID: 8661091
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit which receives a paper document from a user and receives instruction information used for generating a digital document from the paper document; a first generating unit that generates, from the paper document received by said receiving unit, the digital document based on the instruction information received by said receiving unit; a second generating unit that generates feed data, including the instruction information received by said receiving unit, for notifying an external apparatus of the digital document generated by said first generating unit; a registration unit that registers the digital document generated from the received paper document into a holding unit that stores the digital document, wherein said registration unit registers the generated digital document as a new document or in relation to a previously registered digital document; and a transmitting unit that (1) transmits, in response to a request from the external apparatus, the feed data generated by said second generating unit to the external apparatus, and (2) transmits, after the feed data is transmitted to the external apparatus and in response to a request from the external apparatus for the generated digital document, the generated digital document to the external apparatus, wherein when said registration unit overwrites the digital document on a registered digital document already registered in the holding unit or registers the digital document as another version of the registered digital document into the holding unit, said second generation unit generates the feed data of the digital document by updating reference information to the registered digital document to reference information to the digital document if the feed data of the registered digital document includes the reference information to the registered digital document or generates the feed data of the digital document by adding the reference information to the digital document into the feed data of the registered digital document if the feed data of the registered digital document does not include the reference information to the registered digital document.