Patent ID: 7710621

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus; an input apparatus; and an information management apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus comprising: a communication section connected to the information management apparatus to manage a data with a correspondence of the data to management information and the input apparatus to accept manuscript information, to communicate with each other; an image forming section to form an image on a recording paper; and a controlling section to transmit the management information to the information management apparatus through the communication section, to receive the data corresponding to the transmitted management information from the information management apparatus, to convert the received data into barcode information, to form composite information by combining the barcode information and the manuscript information received from the input apparatus, and to allow the image forming section to form an image of the composite information, wherein the controlling section receives the management information from the input apparatus through the communication section, and transmits the received management information to the information management apparatus, and wherein the input apparatus comprises: an operation section to accept input information; a communication connection section connected to the information management apparatus and the image forming apparatus, to communicate with each other; and a communication controlling section to transmit the input information input on the operation section to specify the management information to the information management apparatus through the communication connection section, to receive the management information corresponding to the input information from the information management apparatus, and to transmit the received management information and the manuscript information to the image forming apparatus, and wherein the information management apparatus comprises: a storage to store the data with the correspondence of the data to the management information; an information communication section connected to the input apparatus and the image forming apparatus, to communicate with each other; and an information controlling section to receive the input information from the input apparatus through the information communication section, to specify the management information corresponding to the received input information among the management information in the storage, to specify the data corresponding to the received management information among the data in the storage, and to transmit the specified data to the image forming apparatus.