Patent ID: 7949939

Claim:
A document processing and managing system comprising a document processing apparatus and a document management apparatus, the document processing apparatus comprising: a processor that controls operations of the document processing apparatus; and an information requesting unit that transmits, to the document management apparatus, instructing user identification information that identifies a user who instructs the document processing apparatus to perform document processing and electronic document identification information that identifies an electronic document to be subjected to the document processing; wherein the processor carries out the document processing, and the document management apparatus comprising: an acquisition history holding unit that holds an acquisition history, the acquisition history including user identification information that identifies a first user who acquires the electronic document from a document holding apparatus and the electronic document identification information; an information holding unit that holds first user utilization permission information that indicates document processing of the electronic document that is allowed for the first user and second user utilization permission information that indicates document processing of the electronic document that is allowed for a second user who acquires the electronic document through the first user, the document processing of the electronic document that is allowed for the first user and the document processing of the electronic document that is allowed for the second user being different from each other; and a processor that receives from the document processing apparatus the instructing user identification information and the electronic document identification information determines from the acquisition history whether the user is the first user, transmits the first user utilization permission information to the document processing apparatus in response to determining that the user is the first user, and transmits the second user utilization permission information to the document processing apparatus in response to determining that the user is not the first user, wherein upon receipt of the first user utilization permission information or the second user utilization permission information, the document processing apparatus carries out the document processing for the electronic document indicated to the user based on the first user utilization permission information or the second user utilization permission information which is received.