Patent ID: 8861004

Claim:
A reading system comprising: a reading apparatus; and a terminal apparatus that transmits an instruction to the reading apparatus, wherein the reading apparatus includes an identification unit that identifies a first user, a reading unit that reads an original document, a reception unit that receives, from the terminal apparatus, authentication information of a second user and an instruction given to the reading apparatus, an authentication unit that performs authentication by using the authentication information, and a permission unit that permits, if authentication performed by the authentication unit is successful, the reading unit to read an original document in accordance with the instruction received by the reception unit, and wherein the terminal apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires, from the reading apparatus, identification information of the first user identified by the identification unit in the reading apparatus, an acceptance unit that accepts an operation performed by the second user, a second acquisition unit that acquires identification information of the second user in the terminal apparatus, and a transmission unit that transmits, if the identification information of the first user acquired by the first acquisition unit and the identification information of the second user acquired by the second acquisition unit satisfy a certain condition, an instruction corresponding to the operation accepted by the acceptance unit and the authentication information to the reading apparatus.