Patent ID: 8380014

Claim:
A bar-code ticket processing apparatus to be connected to an external device, the bar-code ticket processing apparatus comprising: a taking unit configured to take thereinto a bar-code ticket; an image-information reading unit configured to read image information of the bar-code ticket taken by the taking unit; an identification-information reading unit configured to read identification information of the bar-code ticket taken by the taking unit; a control unit configured to judge, when the identification-information reading unit fails in reading of the identification information of the bar-code ticket, the bar-code ticket as an error bar-code ticket; an input unit configured to receive a manual input of the identification information of the bar-code ticket judged as the error bar-code ticket by the control unit; and a data transmitting unit configured to associate the image information read by the image-information reading unit with the identification information read by the identification-information reading unit when the identification-information reading unit has read the identification information of the bar-code ticket and to transmit the associated information to the external device, and to associate the image information read by the image-information reading unit with the identification information received by the input unit when the identification-information reading unit has failed to read the identification information of the bar-code ticket and the identification information has been received by the input unit and to transmit the associated information to the external device.