Patent ID: 8223367

Claim:
A document processing apparatus comprising: a storage that stores a characteristic of a document on which a document processing is performed in a series of tasks; a creating unit that creates an instructing image including an image of information identifying the document, a description of the characteristic stored in the storage, and an image of a first entry column on which an information indicating that a characteristic of an actual document is different from the stored characteristic is entered; an output unit that outputs the instructing image created by the creating unit; a receiving unit that receives a read-instructing image corresponding to the instructing image, the read-instructing image being read by an image reading device connected through a communicating line; and an extracting unit that extracts first information entered on a second entry portion of the first entry column provided in the read-instructing image received by the receiving unit and second information identifying the document; wherein the storage correlates the first information and the second information, and stores the first information and the second information correlated with each other, wherein the characteristic of the document describes a form in which the document has been printed and the characteristic of the actual document describe a form in which the actual document has been printed.