Patent ID: 8576429

Claim:
An image forming system comprising an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus that are configured to be interconnected via a network, wherein: the information processing apparatus comprises: a memory that records in itself, a printer driver to configure operation setting for an image forming apparatus that holds one or more than one memory area capable of storing a document; a display; a controller that makes the display show a setting screen to specify operation settings for the image forming apparatus that matches the printer driver recorded in the memory, when the printer driver is activated, and further makes the display show in the setting screen, an instruction portion to give an instruction to show the documents stored in a memory area of the image forming apparatus; and a transmitter that transmits a request to show the documents stored therein to the image forming apparatus, when the instruction portion is used by a user, the image forming apparatus comprises: a receiver that receives the request from the information processing apparatus; a transmitter that transmits to the information processing apparatus, reference information to select a document among those stored therein, in response to the request received by the receiver, the controller of the information processing apparatus further makes the display show a selection screen to select a document among those stored therein based on the reference information received from the image forming apparatus; wherein the printer driver is configured to hold the authentication information; and wherein the transmitter of the information processing apparatus further transmits to the image forming apparatus, a first document and a request to merge the first document and a second document, if the setting screen is displayed by activating the printer driver while the first document is displayed on the display, then the second document is selected via the selection screen displayed by transmitting the request to the image forming apparatus.