Patent ID: 8516359

Claim:
A document creation system comprising a document creation apparatus creating a document with Web-accessible data being inserted into a certain area thereof and an image processing apparatus publishing the Web-accessible data at a Web address, the document creation apparatus and the image processing apparatus being connected to each other via a network, the document creation apparatus comprising a requesting portion which requests, before generation of target data, the image processing apparatus to provide dummy data to be temporarily inserted into the document as an alternative for target data, by specifying a Web address inside of the image processing apparatus, and the image processing apparatus comprising: an address analyzer which uses a processor and memory to analyze the specified Web address to determine whether or not the request of the document creation apparatus is a request for dummy data; a dummy data generator which generates dummy data if it is recognized as a request for dummy data by the address analyzer; a transmitter which transmits to the document creation apparatus, the generated dummy data in a form allowing the dummy data to be temporarily inserted from the specified Web address; a job administrator which generates and stores a reserved job about the request if it is recognized as a request for dummy data by the address analyzer; a target data generator which generates target data to be inserted into the document by performing an operation of data generation when the user gives an instruction to start the reserved job generated and stored by the job administrator; and a replacing portion which publishes at the specified Web address the target data generated by the target data generator, by replacing the dummy data existing at the specified Web address with it.