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DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS

  • US 20080007770A1
  • Filed: 06/07/2007
  • Published: 01/10/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A document processing system, comprising:

  • a document management apparatus adapted to execute a processing task according to a job flow that defines an execution order of a plurality of processing tasks; and

    a document property management apparatus adapted to manage a property of a document, wherein the document management apparatus comprises;

    a document input unit;

    a job flow processing unit adapted to execute each respective processing task that is included in the job flow that has been directed for execution, according to the job flow, on a document that is inputted via the document input unit;

    an output unit connected to the job flow processing unit, and adapted to perform an output processing on the document that is processed by the job flow processing unit, according to the job flow that has been directed for execution;

    a document property acquiring unit adapted to acquire a property of the document from the document property management apparatus when the document is inputted; and

    a change unit adapted to change either a processing content of the processing task that the job flow processing unit executes, or an output content of the output unit, according to the property of the document that the document property acquiring unit acquires.

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