Patent ID: 7672004

Claim:
An image processing system configured to connect at least one client apparatus to an image processing apparatus via a network, said image processing apparatus comprising: a reading device configured to read an image of an original document and generate a prescribed image signal; an image data generating device configured to apply prescribed image processing to the image signal to generate image data; a memory configured to store the image data; a data compression and expansion device configured to compress and expand the image data; a format converting device configured to convert the image data stored in the memory into a prescribed format in accordance with a format condition including one or more capture conditions, one of said capture conditions is designating halftone processing information for generating either binary data or multi-value data, designated by the at least one client apparatus which includes a display which displays a capture condition selection screen that displays buttons for selecting said one or more capture conditions, and the format condition designating device is configured to designate the format condition after the image of the original document has been read; a delivering device configured to deliver the image data converted to the prescribed format to the at least one client; and a control device configured to generally control the image processing apparatus.