Patent ID: 8599420

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image processing device and an external device connected to the image processing device via a network; the image processing device comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory storing at least one program to be executed by the at least one processor and a plurality of image files, the at least one program including instructions for: receiving a selection of one or more image files from among the plurality of image files stored in the at least one memory, determining whether the received selection is a selection of one image file or a selection of multiple image files, and transmitting, when the received selection is determined to be a selection of multiple image files, the selected image files and information indicating that the selected image files are to be combined to the external device, and when the received selection is determined to be a selection of one image file, the selected image file to the external device; and the external device comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the selected image files and the information or the selected image file from the image processing device; a file creation unit configured to create, when the receiving unit receives the selected image files and the information, a combined image file by combining the selected image files with each other based on the received information.