Patent ID: 8675216

Claim:
A selective duplicating system comprising a paper medium duplicating device and an information management server device which are capable of communicating with each other, wherein the information management server device comprises: a first storage unit which, regarding original data, stores a management ID, an entity ID, and an electronic data body which are associated with each other; a second storage unit which, regarding paper mediums duplicated sequentially from the original data, stores policy information to indicate whether a user is permitted to duplicate each of the paper mediums, original data, and the individual items of the original data and a management ID of the original data which are associated with each other on a management ID basis; a unit which reads policy information related to a management ID in a duplication request from the second storage unit when having received the duplication request that includes a management ID indicating a paper medium to be duplicated, duplication source selection information that has selected the paper medium or original data as a duplication source, and user information; a unit which collates the read policy information with the user information in the duplication request and determines whether to permit the duplicating of the paper medium or original data selected in the duplication source selection information; a unit which reads the management ID of the original data related to the management ID in the duplication request and the electronic data body related to the entity ID with reference to the first and second storage units when the determination result for the original data has shown that the duplicating is permitted and creates duplicated original data by giving a new management ID to duplicated data obtained by duplicating the electronic data body; a unit which transmits the created duplicated original data to the paper medium duplicating device; and a unit which transmits a new management ID to the paper medium duplicating device when the determination result for the paper medium has shown that the duplicating is permitted; and the paper medium duplicating device comprises a unit which transmits the duplication request to the information management server device; a unit which creates duplicated paper medium data by giving the new management ID received from the information management server device to image data read from the paper medium to be duplicated; and a unit which prints and outputs the duplicated original data received from the information management server device or the created duplicated paper medium data.