Patent ID: 8902452

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus including a display device and configured to function as a Web client; and a document management apparatus managing document information created by a personal computer terminal usable for a process target of the image forming apparatus and list information of the document information and configured to function as a Web server, the document management apparatus being coupled to the image forming apparatus via a communication network; said image forming apparatus comprising: a list acquisition part configured to acquire the list information from the document management apparatus independent of the personal computer terminal; a process target reception part configured to display the list information acquired by the list acquisition part on the display device provided in the image forming apparatus, and to receive a selection of the process target which is selected from the list information displayed on the display device provided in the image forming apparatus so as to perform an image forming processing by the image forming apparatus, said selection including identifying information that identifies document information as the process target and address information of the image forming apparatus that performs the image forming processing, said receiving the selection of the process target is performed independent of the personal computer terminal; a process target acquisition part configured to acquire the document information corresponding to the selection of the process target received by the process target reception part from the document management apparatus, said acquiring the document information is performed independent of the personal computer terminal; and an image formation part configured to perform a predetermined image forming process for the document information acquired by the process target acquisition part, wherein the process target acquisition part is further configured to transmit, to the document management apparatus, a request for the document information corresponding to the selection of the process target and the address information so as to download the document information corresponding to the selection of the process target according to the identifying information that identifies the document information as the process target and the address information that are included in the selection and transmitted to the document management apparatus.