Patent ID: 8427672

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a document storing unit configured to store a plurality of document information containing scanned images and fax transmission/reception images sent from a plurality of users; a metadata outputting unit configured to generate metadata for each document information stored by the document storing unit, and to distribute the metadata; a display format file supplying unit configured to supply a display conversion file linked to the metadata; a zooming process file supplying unit configured to supply a zooming process file linked to the metadata, the zooming process file including a zoom factor parameter for each of a plurality of thumbnails of the images and each of the metadata of each document information, the zoom factor parameter indicating a range of a zooming factor by which each corresponding one of the thumbnails and metadata is displayed, wherein the plurality of thumbnails and the metadata are zoomed an equal amount when a zooming process is performed without specifying the document information, and in response to a zooming operation of a user, whether to display or not display the thumbnails and metadata for each document information is determined based on the range of the zooming factor indicated by the zoom factor parameter of the corresponding one of the thumbnails and the metadata; and a document information supplying unit configured to read a document information item, requested at a time of displaying, from the document storing unit and supply the document information item.