Patent ID: 7748633

Claim:
A medium management system, comprising: an identification information acquisition unit that acquires first identification information uniquely identifying a first medium surface of a certain medium, and second identification information uniquely identifying a second medium surface of the certain medium and being associated with the first identification information, wherein the second medium surface of the certain medium is a rear surface of the first medium surface of the certain medium; a database that associates the first identification information with annotation identification information corresponding to a handwritten annotation on the first surface of the certain medium; a code image generating unit that generates a first code image to be printed on the first medium surface from the first identification information, and a second code image to be printed on the second medium surface from the second identification information, wherein the first identification information and the second identification information are acquired by the identification information acquisition unit; a document image generation unit that generates a document image of an electronic document; an image combining unit that does not combine the first code image with the document image, and combine the second code image with the document image; and an image formation unit that forms the first code image on the first medium surface, and forms the second code image on the second medium surface to be superimposed on the document image.