Patent ID: 7139094

Claim:
A scanning system comprising: a scanning device, comprising: at least one input device usable to input data, and a memory, the memory storing at least one destination indicator, wherein the at least one input device is usable to select one of the at least one destination indicator; and a host device connectable to the scanning device, comprising: a controller, comprising: a scanned data manager that receives as input the selected destination indicator, the scanned data manager including: a destination manager that determines the destination relating to the selected destination indicator, and a scanned data processor that, based on at least one scan parameter corresponding to the determined destination, obtains the scanned data from the scanning device based on the determined destination and processes the scanned data, and a memory, the memory storing: at least one destination to which scanned data can be directed, the at least one destination corresponding to an identified memory location in the memory of the host device, and data relating each of the at least one destination to one of the at least one destination indicator.