Method for managing transaction document and system therefor

• US 20060263134A1
• Filed: 04/14/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Beppu, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US11/403,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20060263134A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/62
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method for managing a transaction document includes: reading the transaction document to which transaction number is attached; extracting the transaction number from the read transaction document; associating the transaction document with the extracted transaction number while using the extracted transaction number as a key; and storing the transaction document associated with the extracted transaction number.

Claims

1. A method for managing a transaction document, the method comprising:

reading the transaction document to which transaction number is attached;

extracting the transaction number from the read transaction document;

associating the transaction document with the extracted transaction number while using the extracted transaction number as a key; and

storing the transaction document associated with the extracted transaction number.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the reading comprises reading the transaction document by a scanner as an image, and

the extracting comprises converting data read by the scanner as the image, into character data to extract the transaction number.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

registering the extracted transaction number together with other data concerning transaction, in a database.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

attaching the transaction number to the transaction document.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

judging authenticity of the transaction document.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the judging is executed on a basis of the extracted transaction number.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the judging is executed on a basis of a watermark, which is attached to the transaction document in advance.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the stored transaction document with the transaction number.

9. A transaction document managing system, comprising:

a reading unit that reads a transaction document to which transaction number is attached;

an extracting unit that extracts the transaction number from the transaction document read by the reading unit; and

a storing unit that associates the transaction document with the transaction number extracted by the extracting unit while using the extracted transaction number as a key, the storing unit that stores the transaction document associated with the extracted transaction number.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein:

the reading unit comprises a scanner section that reads the transaction document as an image, and

the extracting unit converts data read by the scanner section, into character data to extract the transaction number.

11. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a database in which data concerning transaction is registered, the data comprising the extracted transaction number.

12. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a printing unit that prints the transaction document with the transaction number attached thereto.

13. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a judging unit that judges authenticity of the transaction document.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the judging unit makes the judging on a basis of the transaction number extracted by the extracting unit.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the judging unit makes the judging on a basis of a watermark, which is attached to the transaction document in advance.

16. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a retrieving unit that retrieves the stored transaction document with the transaction number.

17. A transaction document managing system comprising:

a branch office comprising;

a scanner section; and

a first computer; and

a center comprising a second computer, wherein;

the first computer, the scanner section, and the second computer are connected to each other via a network,

the scanner section reads a transaction document to which transaction number is attached, to generate image data of the transaction document,

the first computer comprises;

an extracting unit that extracts transaction number from the image data of the transaction document; and

a data output unit that outputs the image data of the transaction document and the transaction number data extracted by the extracting unit via the network, and

the second computer comprises;

a data input unit that inputs the image data of the transaction document and the transaction number, which are output from the first computer via the network; and

a storage instructing unit that associates the image data of the transaction document input by the data input unit with the transaction number input by the data input unit while using the transaction number as a key, the storage instructing unit that stores into a storing unit the image data of the transaction document associated with the transaction number.