Patent ID: 8705062

Claim:
A scanning device comprising: a scan service configured to: scan a document, and generate scan data based on the document scan; a distributed scan management service that implements a distributed scan device protocol and a distributed scan processing protocol; wherein the distributed scan management service is configured to: receive information for post scan processing instructions, and responsive, at least in part, to a quota handler service, implemented on the scanning device, designating a verification success for the scan data, send the scan data and information for the post scan processing instructions to a scan server; the quota handler service configured to: determine a limit on an amount of data that may be sent to a particular destination identified in the post scan processing instructions based, at least in part, on a user-specific quota for the particular destination, determine whether a size of the scan data exceeds the limit on the amount of data that may be sent to the particular destination identified in the post scan processing instructions, responsive to determining that the size of the scan data does not exceed the limit, designate the verification success for the scan data.