Patent ID: 8560838

Claim:
A document disposal certification system comprising: a document generation apparatus that forms an image of a document on a recording medium; a document disposal apparatus that disposes of the recording medium; and a document disposal certification apparatus, wherein the document generation apparatus includes: a document ID generation unit that generates document ID information; an image forming unit that forms an ID image corresponding to the document ID information on the recording medium; and a first certification information generation unit that generates a document presence certification information which associates a user ID information, an apparatus ID information of the document generation apparatus, and time information indicating time when the image is formed on the recording medium with the document ID information and outputs the document presence certification information to the document disposal certification apparatus; the document disposal apparatus includes: a read unit that reads the ID image formed on the recording medium to be discarded by the document disposal apparatus; a disposal unit that discards the recording medium, the ID image of which is read; and a second certification information generation unit that generates a document disposal certification information which associates the user ID information, an apparatus ID of the disposal apparatus, and time information indicating time when the recording medium is discarded with the document ID information and outputs the document disposal certification information to the document disposal certification apparatus; and the document disposal certification apparatus receives and stores the document presence certification information and the document disposal certification information for the same document in association with each other using the document ID information.