Patent ID: 7379056

Claim:
A document taking-over system including an electronic pen terminal device provided with an electronic pen which gets information written by hand on a document prepared to be able to specify a kind thereof together with kind information of said document as electronic data and for transmitting said electronic data, a document taking-over apparatus for processing said electronic data to produce it as document information and a system disposed at a latter stage to utilize said document information, which are connected to one another through a network; said document taking-over apparatus comprising: communication means for receiving said electronic data from said electronic pen terminal device through said network and transmitting said document information to said system at the latter stage; memory means for storing format information which defines specifications for converting said electronic data into a predetermined format utilizable in said system at the latter stage; recognition means for taking out characters or selection item from said electronic data on the basis of said format information to recognize said taken-out characters or selection item; preparation means for preparing said document information of said predetermined format on the basis of said characters or selection item recognized by said recognition means and said format information; and registration means for registering said document information in said memory means and transmitting said document information to said system at the latter stage by means of said communication means.