Patent ID: 8649067

Claim:
A document retrieving/printing system in which a document is selected for printing and outputting, the system comprising: an operations unit that allows input of condition items along with selecting at least one of a product set and a sum set for setting retrieval conditions, a retrieval conditions management unit receives the retrieval conditions when a user sets the retrieval conditions through pressing a setting button on the operations unit, the operations unit acquires a retrieval conditions list from the retrieval conditions management unit, which include a plurality of buttons that are displayed for selection that correspond with the retrieval conditions set, when a user actuates one of the plurality of buttons that correspond to the retrieval conditions list on the operations unit, the retrieval conditions associated with the button that corresponds to the retrieval conditions list are transmitted to the retrieval processing unit, a retrieval processing unit configured to transmit the retrieval conditions of a desired document associated with the actuated button that corresponds to the retrieval conditions list to the document management server and obtains a retrieval result from the document management server based upon the retrieval conditions associated with the button that corresponds to the retrieval conditions list, the desired document being one of a plurality of documents that are stored and managed in a document management server; a text print instructions sheet generation unit configured to generate a text print instructions sheet and layout information based on the retrieval result; an image scan unit configured to scan the text print instructions sheet to which text print instructions information is added; an image analysis unit configured to specify the desired document from the text print instructions information added to the text print instructions scanned by the image scan unit; a document acquisition unit being configured to acquire the document specified by the image analysis unit from the document management server, wherein the text print instructions sheet generation unit being configured to include in the text print instructions sheet identification information for specifying the text print instructions sheet; and a sheet data management unit being configured to manage the layout information that associates the identification information with the identification information of the desired document included in the retrieval result, and the image analysis unit being configured to specify the layout information managed by the sheet data management unit based on the identification information for specifying the text print instructions sheet scanned by the image scan unit, and perform image analysis based on the specified layout information.