Patent ID: 8310689

Claim:
A document managing apparatus comprising: an image data acquiring unit configured to acquire original image data of original documents, a layout of the original documents in the original image data being defined; a layout information storing unit configured to store document IDs for uniquely identifying the original documents and layout information for determining the layout of the original documents; an original document determining unit configured to determine the document IDs of the original documents by comparing the layout information with the layout in the original image data; a partial area information storing unit configured to store partial area information designating partial areas of the original image data respectively for the document IDs; a partial area extracting unit configured to extract the partial areas of the original image data, designated by the partial area information; an arrangement information storing unit configured to store arrangement information on paper in association with the document IDs respectively for the partial areas; a synthetic image data generating unit configured to form synthetic image data on which the partial areas are arranged in conformity with the arrangement information and form identification information which uniquely identifies the synthetic image data into the synthetic image data; a data accumulating unit configured to cause a data storing unit to store the identification information in association with the original image data; a printing unit configured to print a synthetic document on which the synthetic image data are formed; a synthetic image data acquiring unit configured to acquire the synthetic image data by scanning the synthetic document; and an image reading unit configured to read the original image data, which are associated with the identification information formed into the synthetic image data and stored in the data storing unit, wherein the printing unit prints the restored original document having the original image data.