Patent ID: 8639933
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus that reads an original document and generates a digitized scanned document, comprising: a document storage section that stores the scanned document, each scanned document stored in the document storage section including a digital signature of an operator of the image reading apparatus generated with the use of a private key of the operator of the image reading apparatus, a document bundling section that, when a total data size of the scanned documents stored in the document storage section exceeds a specific data size, identifies and bundles two or more scanned documents stored in the document storage section and including the digital signature of the operator of the image reading apparatus, and generates a new document having the two or more scanned documents identified and bundled, a signing section that creates a digital signature of the image reading apparatus based on a digital certificate issued for the image reading apparatus for the new document and adds the created signature to the new document, a time stamp affixing section that acquires a time stamp for the new document, and affixes the acquired time stamp to the new document, and a process start condition management section that manages the start of the process.