Patent ID: 8861006

Claim:
A scan device comprising: user interface; one or more processors; and one or more memories storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause: receiving user identification data that identifies a user of the scan device; retrieving data that at least identifies one or more scan process definitions that define a set of instructions for acquiring image data and that correspond to the user identification data; causing to be displayed, on the user interface, one or more user interface objects that correspond to the one or more scan process definitions; receiving, via the user interface, user input that indicates a selection of a particular user interface object from the one or more user interface objects; identifying, in a particular scan process definition that corresponds to the particular user interface object, scan settings data and device management data that indicates one or more scan devices and one or more restrictions on use, by the one or more scan devices, of the particular scan process definition to generate scan data; performing one of: in response to identifying the device management data, determining whether any of the one or more restrictions is applicable to the scan device, and in response to determining that at least one of the one or more restrictions is applicable to the scan device, preventing the scan device from using the particular scan process definition to perform a scan operation, or performing a scan operation by generating particular scan data based on the scan settings data and one or more printed documents and sending, to a device that is separate from the scan device, the particular scan data and the device management data.