Patent ID: 8116515

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: a reading device configured to read an image on an original document; a processing unit; memory storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to function as a first writing device configured to write image data read by the reading device into image storage; a communication device configured to communicate with a separately-portable storage medium; a second writing device configured to transmit authentication information to the separately-portable storage medium, which is used to control output of the image data from the image storage; a determination unit configured to determine whether the original document is a particular document; and a control device configured to permit output of the image data read by the reading device when the determination unit determines that the original document is not the particular document and to control the first writing device to write the image data into the image storage and control the second writing device to write the authentication information into the separately-portable storage medium when the determination unit determines that the original document is the particular document.