Patent ID: 8411306

Claim:
An image forming apparatus in a data processing system, the data processing system comprising the image forming apparatus having a scanner that scans a document to generate document image data and a server apparatus that receives document image data generated by the image forming apparatus to apply various kinds of information processing to the document image data based on a preset parameter, the image forming apparatus and server apparatus being connectable to each other via a network, the image forming apparatus comprising: a printing portion that receives data for a parameter setting sheet transmitted from the server apparatus for setting a processing parameter to be referred to at the time of execution of an information processing by the server apparatus and prints out the data as a parameter setting sheet; and an extracting portion that extracts the processing parameter from document image data generated responsive to scanning a parameter setting sheet bearing the preset parameter entered therein, the parameter setting sheet being printed out by the printing portion, wherein the image forming apparatus transmits the processing parameter extracted by the extracting portion and document image data generated by the scanner to the server apparatus.