Patent ID: 8169651

Claim:
A data processing apparatus comprising: a communication unit that communicates with a network; a storing unit that stores data; a printing unit that performs printing; a scanning unit that scans an image on a recording medium, the image including Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information that indicates a URL, printed content that has a first entry space at a first position on the recording medium, and manual-entry content that is written manually in the first entry space, the scanning unit producing output data indicative of the URL information, the printed content and the manual-entry content; and a controller that: extracts the URL information from the output data and recognizes the URL; controls the communication unit to access the recognized URL and obtain a web page therefrom; recognizes a second position of a second entry space of the web page obtained from the recognized URL by analyzing the obtained web page without printing; identifies the first entry space on the recording medium according to the recognized second position of the second entry space; recognizes, from the output data, the manual-entry content written in the identified first entry space of the scanned recording medium.