Patent ID: 8130408

Claim:
A presentation material printing system including a camera shooting minutes and collecting sound, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus having a printing unit and a scanner unit, wherein the camera comprises: a generating unit configured to generate minutes data including text data converted from audio data based on the collected sound, a receiving unit configured to receive page switching information transmitted from the information processing apparatus in accordance with a page switching operation performed in response to a user's instruction to a presentation material which the information processing apparatus controls to display, and an adding unit configured to add a page reference history to the minutes data relating to a certain page in the presentation material based on the received page switching information such that the minutes data relating to the certain page is printed in association with the certain page, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive the minutes data with the page reference history added from the camera; a conversion unit configured to convert the received minutes data into two dimensional coded information; a printing unit configured to print the presentation material with the two dimensional coded information corresponding to each page of the presentation material being added to a margin of the corresponding page; and a decoding unit configured to read the printed presentation material by a scanner unit and decode the two dimensional coded information.