Patent ID: 7806315

Claim:
An image processor comprising: an extracting component for extracting information from a barcode in a first region of document image data, wherein the barcode in the first region includes information indicating copying-permitted, copying-inhibited or conditional permission of copying and document ID; and a determining component for determining the document image data to be copying-permitted without extracting information from a barcode in a second region when the information indicating copying-permitted is extracted from the barcode in the first region by the extracting component, determining the document image data to be copy-inhibited without extracting information from the barcode in the second region when the information indicating copying-inhibited is extracted from the barcode in the first region by the extracting component, and determining the document image data to be copy permitted or inhibited, when the information indicating conditional permission of copying is extracted from the barcode in the first region by the extracting component, by comparing information indicating a condition extracted from the barcode in the second region to information input by a user, wherein the determining component applies determined result of copying permitted or inhibited with regard to a previous page to a current page without extracting information from the barcode in the second region when a document ID extracted from the barcode in the first region in the current page by the extracting component is identical to a document ID extracted from the barcode in the first region in the previous page.