Patent ID: 7996362

Claim:
An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit which acquires image data; a job executing unit which executes a job concerning an image processing of the image data acquired by the acquisition unit; a first determination unit which determines whether related image data which matches the acquired image data is stored in a predetermined storage device; a writing unit which (i) writes link information indicating a link to the related image data to the predetermined storage device instead of writing the acquired image data to the predetermined storage device if the related image data is stored and (ii) writes the acquired image data to the predetermined storage device if the related image data is not stored; and a second determination unit which determines whether or not the writing unit succeeds in writing the link information or the acquired image data to the predetermined storage device, wherein if the second determination unit determines that the writing unit does not succeed in writing the link information or the acquired image data to the predetermined storage device, the job executing unit does not execute the job concerning the image processing of the acquired image data.