Patent ID: 8422047

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein a plurality of document data and a reoutput condition associated with any of the document data, the reoutput condition defining an output condition used when the document data is reoutput; a selection receiving unit that receives selections of the document data including at least one reoutput-conditioned document data that is associated with the reoutput condition as document data to be output; a condition setting unit that sets the reoutput condition associated with selected reoutput-conditioned document data as the output condition; and an image output unit that outputs all the document data of which the selections are received by the selection receiving unit on the output condition set by the condition setting unit, wherein: the storage unit further stores therein a restrictive condition rule for associating an attribute of document data with an item of an output condition restricted in output of the document data due to the attribute, the image processing apparatus further comprises a determining unit that determines whether there is document data restricted in output thereof by the set output condition in the selected document data with reference to the restrictive condition rule, and if the determining unit determines that there is document data restricted in output thereof, the image output unit outputs document data other than the document data restricted in output thereof and which corresponds to the document data restricted in the data output.