Patent ID: 7882125

Claim:
A document managing system including a document managing apparatus which communicates via a network with an information processing apparatus and a printing apparatus, comprising: a document storing unit, in the document managing apparatus, configured to store documents; an input unit, in the information processing apparatus, configured to input a search condition for searching for a specific document through the documents stored in the document storing unit; a search condition storing unit, in the document managing apparatus, configured to store the search condition, wherein the search condition is input by the input unit and transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the document managing apparatus via the network; a transmitting unit, in the document managing apparatus, configured to transmit the search condition stored in the search condition storing unit to the printing apparatus via the network; a display unit, in the printing apparatus, configured to display the search condition transmitted by the transmitting unit; a designation unit, in the printing apparatus, configured to designate a search condition based on the search condition displayed by the display unit; a searching unit, in the document managing apparatus, configured to search through the stored documents for a document that matches the search condition designated by the designating unit; and a document transmitting unit, in the document managing apparatus, configured to transmit to the printing apparatus the document that matches the search condition designated by the designating unit via the network.