Patent ID: 6891972

Claim:
A communication system comprising a terminal and a central control unit, said terminal comprising: image obtaining means for obtaining an image of a manuscript by scanning the manuscript, wherein an image of a manuscript ID is included in the obtained image of the manuscript; manuscript ID recognition means for recognizing the image of the manuscript ID included in the image of the manuscript and obtaining the manuscript ID as the recognition result of the image of the manuscript ID, the manuscript ID indicating information for an identification of the manuscript; first transmitting means for transmitting the manuscript ID obtained by said manuscript ID recognition means to said central control unit, wherein said first transmitting means does not transmit image data corresponding to unrecognized areas of the manuscript to said central control unit; first receiving means for receiving a control signal from said central control unit, the control signal including an information of character recognizing condition of the manuscript determined by the central control unit based on the manuscript ID transmitted by said first transmitting means, the information of character recognizing condition including positional information of recognition areas of the image of the manuscript; and character recognition means for performing character recognition of character images included in the image of the manuscript in accordance with the information of character recognizing condition included with the control signal, said central control unit comprising: second receiving means for receiving the manuscript ID without the image of the manuscript, the manuscript ID being transmitted from said first transmitting means; obtaining means for obtaining the information of character recognizing condition based on the manuscript ID received by said second receiving means, the information of character recognizing condition including positional information of recognition areas of the manuscript; and second transmitting means for transmitting the control signal including the information of character recognizing condition obtained by said obtaining means to said first receiving means of said terminal.