Patent ID: 6476929
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A file integrating apparatus comprising:a reading unit for reading image files and an order file from each of a plurality of recording media that are for copying, wherein the image files, in which image data has been stored, and the order file, in which order data for specifying image files in which image data to be printed has been stored, have been recorded on each of the recording media in accordance with a predetermined directory structure; a directory generating unit for generating a directory associated with each of the plurality of recording media that are for copying and recording these directories on an integrating recording medium; and a copying unit for copying the image files and the order file, which have been read by said reading unit, under a corresponding directory from among the directories generated by said directory generating unit, while maintaining the directory structure of the recording medium that is for copying in which these read files were stored.