Patent ID: 8390867

Claim:
A form management system comprising: a printing apparatus comprising: a printing and outputting unit configured to print out a form according to a print instruction, the form being generated by overlaying form data on a template; and a tracking data sending unit configured to send tracking data of the form printed by the printing and outputting unit to a tracking data storage database, the tracking data storage database comprising: a storage unit configured to store the tracking data; an extraction unit configured to extract identifying information of the template from the sent tracking data; a determination unit configured to determine whether the extracted identifying information of the template is stored in the storage unit; and a difference image generation unit configured to generate a difference image between image data of the identifying information of the template that has already been stored in the storage unit and image data of the sent tracking data in a case where the determination unit determines that the identifying information of the template has been stored in the storage unit, wherein the difference image generation unit stores the generated difference image in the storage unit as the image data of the received tracking data.