Patent ID: 7806334

Claim:
A workflow processing system, comprising: a print control section that, upon receiving an instruction to print an electronic document used in a workflow, causes a printing device to print, together with the electronic document, identification information for identifying the workflow or an activity of the workflow, the workflow or the activity is a destination to which an image resulting from reading a printed result of the electronic document is to be taken; an identifier recognition section that recognizes the identification information read by an image reading device; an association section that associates the image of the electronic document read in association with the identification information by the image reading device or data resulting from a process performed on the image with the destination identified by the recognized identification information; and a recording section that records time when the printing device is caused to print the identification information or information indicating an order of printing of the identification information; said association section specifying an image corresponding to a latest printed result among a plurality of images of the electronic document read in association with the identification information and corresponding to the same destination on the basis of the record of time when the identification information is printed or the information on the order and associating the specified image with the destination.