Patent ID: 8879108

Claim:
A document processing apparatus which registers document data in a document management server, the document processing apparatus comprising: a generating unit configured to generate the document data; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about an input item necessary for registration of the document data into the document management server; a determination unit configured to determine whether the document data is to be registered or temporarily registered into the document management server by determining whether the value for the input item necessary for the registration of the document data is input; and a control unit configured to perform control to transmit the document data with the value of the input item to the document management server and to request the document management server to complete the registration of the document data into the document management server when the determination unit determines that the document data is to be registered into the document management server, and to transmit the document data to the document management server and to request the document management server to temporarily register the document data into the document management server when the determination unit determines that the document data is to be temporarily registered into the document management server.