Patent ID: 6040920
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A document storage apparatus for forming a document reading system such that said document storage apparatus is combined with a document reading apparatus comprising read demand transmitting means for transmitting a read demand and document receiving means for receiving a document transmitted in response to the read demand to display the received document and to create a read demand in accordance with reference information of the displayed document in a case where the reference information has been instructed, said document storage apparatus comprising:read demand receiving and analyzing means for receiving the read demand issued from said document reading apparatus to analyze required contents;document storage means for storing an electronic document held in page units;document extracting means for extracting a subject page of the electronic document to meet the read demand;response data generating means for generating reference information to a front page and a rear page to meet the read demand to synthesize the reference information to the page of the electronic document extracted by said document extracting means so as to generate response data;instruction means for referring to a preceding or next page of the extracted electronic document:display means for displaying said reference information together with an image of the extracted page of the electronic document and for displaying instruction means; anddocument transmitting means for transmitting the generated response data to said document reading apparatus from which the read demand has been issued.