Patent ID: 7609408

Claim:
An image processing system in which an image reading apparatus and an image formation apparatus are connected to each other through a communication interface, wherein the image reading apparatus comprises: a reading section that reads an original and generates image data, a memory that stores the image data read by the reading section, and a mount-processing permission section that, when the image reading apparatus is connected to the image formation apparatus through the communication interface, permits the image formation apparatus to mount the memory for use as a memory on the image formation apparatus by carrying out a mount-processing of the memory; the image formation apparatus comprises: a mount-processing section that, when the image formation apparatus is connected to the image reading apparatus through the communication interface and permitted by the image reading apparatus to carry out the mount-processing of the memory, carries out the mount-processing of the memory; and the image formation apparatus stores image data received from another communication interface into the memory for which the mount-processing has been carried out by the mount-processing section.