Patent ID: 8154758

Claim:
An apparatus capable of using a memory-equipped sheet, said memory-equipped sheet being a sheet equipped with a memory device, said apparatus reading information from respective memory devices of plural memory-equipped sheets as the memory-equipped sheets are separated and transported one by one, said apparatus comprising: an outputting part configured to generate a document list with regard to the plural memory-equipped sheets, based on information recorded on the respective memory devices of the plural memory-equipped sheets, said outputting part being further configured to output the generated document list; a selection part configured to determine whether or not the document list is to be generated, based on a received user instruction, wherein in a case that the selection part determines that the document list is to be generated and the outputting part generates the document list, (a) the selection part selects a specific memory-equipped sheet by carrying out a keyword search of said document list outputted by the outputting part based on a user-inputted search keyword, when the selection part receives a user instruction to perform the keyword search of the document list, and (b) the selection part further carries out a list selection process to the specific memory equipped sheet selected in (a), so as to finally select the specific memory equipped sheet, when the selection part receives a user instruction to perform the list selection process on the document list, and in a case that the selection part determines that the document list is not to be generated and the outputting part does not generate the document list, the selection part selects the specific memory equipped sheet by performing the keyword search directly on information read from the respective memory devices of the plural memory-equipped sheets as the memory-equipped sheets are separated and transported one by one, based on the user-inputted search keyword, when the selection part receives a user instruction to perform the keyword search.