Patent ID: 8797572

Claim:
A network scan method of scanning a document, the method comprising: performing a scanning operation by scanning a document with a scanner to generate a scanned image file based on the scanned document, and transmitting the scanned image file to an object host computer connected to the scanner through a network; requesting, by the scanner, scan file information comprising properties of the scanned image file stored on the object host computer to be output by one of a plurality of output devices connected to the scanner through the network, the scan file information enabling confirmation of results of the scanning operation; receiving a selection signal for one of the plurality of output devices to output the scan file information; transmitting the scan file information from the object host computer to the selected output device; and outputting the transmitted scan file information through the output device, wherein the plurality of output devices comprise at least one of a printer connected to the scanner and a display of the printer, to output the scan file information, and the scan file information comprises at least one of a number of scanned document pages, a size of the scanned image file, a location of the scanned image file, a resolution of the scanned image file, a linked program to execute the scanned image file, and a thumbnail of the scanned image file.