Patent ID: 7369257

Claim:
A system comprising: a client device; and a server that communicates with the client device, wherein the client device includes: a data input unit that inputs object data; a scanner that scans a document and generates image data; a mode display unit that displays a plurality of modes for selection; a mode selecting unit that selects a mode from the plurality of modes displayed on the mode display unit; a first transmission unit that transmits request data and one of the object data and the image data to the server, the request data corresponding to the mode selected on the mode selecting unit; a first receiving unit that receives processed data; and an output unit that outputs the processed data; and the server includes: a second receiving unit that receives the request data and the one of the object data and the image data from the client device; a data processing unit that processes the one of the object data and the image data received by the second receiving unit into the processed data in accordance with the request data; and a second transmission unit that transmits the processed data to the client device, the plurality of modes including compact copy function mode and at least one of OCR function mode, voice-to-text conversion function mode or text-to-voice conversion function mode.