Patent ID: 8610922

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for creating scan and transmission settings which are to be registered to an image input apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a selection unit configured to select, based on a user's operation, one document from a plurality of documents being stored in a storage unit; an extraction unit configured to extract scan settings by analyzing the selected one document; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a storage location where the selected one document has been stored; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a request for registering a button associated with the extracted scan settings and the acquired storage location to the image input apparatus, wherein the image input apparatus registers the button that is associated with the extracted scan settings and the acquired storage location when receiving the request, and wherein the registered button is used for scanning another document based on the scan settings associated with the registered button and transmitting scan data of the scanned another document to the storage location associated with the registered button when the registered button is selected by a user of the image input apparatus.