Patent ID: 7394560

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which executes a process for document data in a data management unit that manages, as the document data, at least one of application data created by application software and image data converted into a predetermined format on the basis of the application data, said apparatus comprising: a display unit, adapted to display an operation screen containing document information on the document data managed in said data management unit and a designation portion for designating an editing operation to the document data; and an output unit, adapted to, when the editing operation to the document data for which the application data and the image data are managed as the document data is designated via the designation portion in said operation screen, output notification information representing information on consistency/inconsistency between the application data and the image data, wherein the document information contains presence/absence of the application data corresponding to the document data, presence/absence of the image data, and when both the application data and the image data exist, consistency/inconsistency between the application data and the image data.