Patent ID: 8237975

Claim:
A document administration system in which a plurality of document storing apparatuses and a server apparatus are connected via a network, wherein each of the plurality of document storing apparatuses include: a plurality of boxes for storing various information in a sorted manner; and a document storing portion for making the document storing apparatus store in one of the boxes thereof, wherein the server apparatus includes: an output request receiving portion for receiving an output request on a document stored in one of the document storing apparatuses; an output destination selecting portion for selecting one of the document storing apparatuses for actually outputting the document corresponding to the output request among the plurality of document storing apparatuses connected to the network based on an instruction by a user; a discriminating portion which discriminates whether the one of the document storing apparatuses selected by the output destination selecting portion coincides with one of the document storing apparatuses in which the document is stored; and a controller which transmits an output request of the document to the one of the document storing apparatuses to make the one of the document storing apparatuses output the document when the discriminating portion of the server apparatus discriminates both the document storing apparatuses are the same, and obtains the document from the one of the document storing apparatuses in which the document is stored and transmits the obtained document and an output request of the obtained document to the one of the document storing apparatuses selected by the output destination selecting portion of the server apparatus to output the obtained document when the discriminating portion discriminates both the document storing apparatuses are not the same.