Patent ID: 8346018

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for having a storage device communicating with an image processing apparatus that is capable of transmitting an image of a sheet read by an image reader, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storing unit configured to store a document editing application; a receiving unit configured to receive an image and image processing information on reading processing of the sheet from the image processing apparatus; a hot folder manager configured to detect that the image and the image processing information are generated in a hot folder on which a processing setting is registered, wherein the hot folder manager decides a rotation angle of the image based on the image processing information received by the receiving unit and the processing setting when the image and the image processing information are detected, and activates the document editing application when the rotation angle is decided; and a passing unit configured to pass the image rotated by the rotation angle to the activated document editing application, wherein the storing unit, receiving unit, hot folder manager, and the passing unit are performed by a CPU.