JP2009152732A - Image processing device, image processing system, and image processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device, an image processing system, and an image processing program for allowing a user to perform operation on an original document with operation authority, when original documents constituting a document composed of N-up include the original document with operation authority which is available to the user, even if the user does not have the operation authority for the document composed of N-up. <P>SOLUTION: An image processing device 100 is configured to perform the following steps. Image information of a manuscript is read by an image reading portion 105. A form ID of the manuscript is acquired from the read image data, and a document ID of each of a plurality of documents constituting the manuscript is acquired from a log server 20. Then, processing may be performed to a document with operation authority by a printing execution portion 106. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and an image processing program.

  In recent years, electronic documents have been handled in offices and homes.

  As a document management technique, there is a document security management system technique that limits the handling of electronic documents and paper documents.

  Generally, a user who is allowed to handle each electronic document or paper document is determined, and the user is described in a security policy.

  An electronic document or paper document in which a security policy is described is checked for security policy every time it is requested to handle, and permission / non-permission of handling is determined.

  As a document security management technology, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-228667 discloses image formation by recording a profile of an electronic document or print document generated by an image forming apparatus connected to a security server via a network. There are provided a security server, a document security management system, and a document security management method capable of tracking a security state by following an ID even when printing, copying, and the like of a document are repeated in an apparatus.

  Further, as a technique for security management of stored documents, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 not only performs authentication processing by limiting the number of password authentication failures when selecting a stored document, but also when editing, reprinting, or deleting the stored document. There are provided an image storage system and a recording medium in which the security of the document storage function is enhanced by performing the above authentication process.

Further, as a technique related to a security level to be given to an output document, Patent Document 3 discloses that a security level is determined from print data information, and an embedded pattern corresponding to the determined security level is included in drawing data. Thus, there are provided an image forming apparatus and an image forming program capable of providing appropriate security due to a difference in confidentiality of an original to be copied.
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-259108 JP 2004-185326 A JP 2007-189355 A

  As described above, there are many techniques related to document security management, but no easy-to-use security management technique related to the N-up technique for printing the contents of a plurality of sheets on one sheet has been proposed.

  When outputting a plurality of documents placed on the document table of the copying machine on a single sheet, a simple method is generally considered in which the security policy of the output paper document is matched to the strict one of the original document. However, with this method, there arises a problem that a user who has an operation authority for an original document whose security policy is not strict cannot copy only the original document. Such an example will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 7A, the original of one document 3 is 2-up copied from the two originals of the document 1 and the document 2, and is copied and output. The user who generates the document 3 is the user A who has the operation authority for the documents 1 and 2, but the user B who has only the operation authority for the document 1 and does not have the operation authority for the document 2 has a severe original manuscript. The user does not have the authority to operate the document 3 based on the method of matching the security policy to the document 3. In the conventional copying apparatus, as shown in FIG. 7B, the user B cannot copy the document 1 from the document 3.

  Therefore, according to the present invention, even if a user does not have the authority to operate a document composed of N-up, if there is an original document having the operation authority in the original document constituting the document, the operation authority An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and an image processing program capable of operating an original document including

  In order to achieve the above object, an image processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention responds to a user's operation on a paper document printed with document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents. A reading unit that reads image information of a paper document including the document identification information, an extraction unit that extracts the document identification information from the image information read by the reading unit, and the document identification information extracted by the extraction unit When there is no operation authority for the paper document and when the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information is acquired from the document information history management apparatus, each document identification information of the plurality of documents Whether the user is authorized to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by the user, and the user is authorized to operate the document corresponding to the document identification information. Inquiry means for making an inquiry to the operation authority management apparatus to be managed, and as a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, an image of the authorized document Screen display means for displaying an operation screen capable of instructing to shift to processing, and image processing means for processing image information of the document when an instruction is given for image processing of an authorized document on the operation screen. Configured as follows.

  According to a second aspect of the invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the screen display means instructs the first instruction means to instruct to stop the operation and to continue the operation of the authorized document. The operation screen having second instruction means is displayed, and when the second instruction means is operated, the image processing means is image information of an authorized document among image information read by the reading means. Configured to process.

  Further, the invention of claim 3 is the invention of claim 1, further comprising an acquisition means for acquiring image information of an authorized document as a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means from an image storage device, wherein the screen display means Displaying the operation screen having a first instruction means for instructing to stop the operation and a second instruction means for instructing to continue the operation of the authorized document. When the second instruction means is operated, the image information acquired by the acquisition means is processed.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing system, an operation authority management device that manages an operation authority for a document corresponding to document identification information corresponding to a user, and a document information history management device that manages the document identification information. And an image storage device that manages the image data of the document and an image processing device that processes the image. The image processing device assigns document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents. A reading unit that reads image information of a paper document including the document identification information in response to a user operation on the printed paper document; an extraction unit that extracts the document identification information from the image information read by the reading unit; When there is no authority to operate the paper document corresponding to the document identification information extracted by the extraction unit, and the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information Whether or not there is an authority to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by the user based on each document identification information of the plurality of documents when acquired from the document information history management device Inquiry means for making an inquiry to the operation authority management apparatus, and as a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, the image processing of the authorized document is performed Image display means for displaying an operation screen capable of instructing transfer of the image, and an image to be processed by acquiring image information of the document from the image storage device when an image processing of an authorized document is instructed on the operation screen And processing means.

  An image processing program according to a fifth aspect of the present invention provides the document identification in response to a user's operation on a paper document printed with a document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents. Reading means for reading image information of a paper document including information, extraction means for extracting the document identification information from the image information read by the reading means, operation authority for the paper document corresponding to the document identification information extracted by the extraction means And when the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information is acquired from the document information history management apparatus, the user is based on the document identification information of the plurality of documents. Whether the user has the authority to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by Inquiry means for making an inquiry to the operation authority management apparatus to be managed, and as a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, image processing of the authorized document Screen display means for displaying an operation screen that can be instructed to shift to the screen, and when image processing of an authorized document is instructed on the operation screen, it is configured to function as image processing means for processing image information of the document Is done.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, even a user who does not have the authority to operate the document corresponding to the document identification information extracted from the read image information has the operation authority in the original document constituting the document. If there is an original document having this, there is an effect that an operation can be performed on the original document having the operation authority.

  According to the invention of claim 2, there is an effect that the image information of the document is processed in response to an instruction to continue the operation on the authorized document.

  According to the invention of claim 3, there is an effect that the image information of the authorized document constituting the read image information is acquired from the image storage device and processed.

  According to the invention of claim 4, even a user who does not have the authority to operate the document corresponding to the document identification information extracted from the read image information has the operation authority in the original document constituting the document. If there is an original document having this, there is an effect that an operation can be performed on the original document having the operation authority.

  According to the invention of claim 5, even if the user does not have the authority to operate the document corresponding to the document identification information extracted from the read image information, the operation authority is included in the original document constituting the document. If there is an original document having this, there is an effect that an operation can be performed on the original document having the operation authority.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  First, a document management system 40 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a document management system 40 according to the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the document management system 40 is configured by connecting an authentication server 10, a log server 20, a policy server 30, and an image processing apparatus 100 via a communication line 1.

  The authentication server 10 is a server that performs user authentication based on user information transmitted from the image processing apparatus 100 for a user who uses the image processing apparatus 100.

  The authentication server 10 includes a user authentication unit 11 that determines whether the user of the user information sent from the image processing apparatus 100 can use the image processing apparatus 100.

  The log server 20 includes a log information storage unit 21 that stores contents operated by the image processing apparatus 100 as log information.

  The policy server 30 includes a policy storage unit 31 that stores a security policy that describes a user that can be set and operated for each document, and also stores document image data that stores image data of the document for which the security policy is set. Part 32.

  The image processing apparatus 100 includes a control unit 101, an operation / display unit 103, a communication I / F unit 104, an image reading unit 105, a print execution unit 106, an IC card reading unit 107, and a storage unit 108.

  The control unit 101 performs overall control of the image processing apparatus 100. In addition, when the document placed in the image reading unit 105 is a document created by N-up printing, the control unit 101 performs processing for inquiring about the document ID of the original document to be N-up. Part 102 is provided.

  The operation / display unit 103 includes a liquid crystal display of a touch panel and various operation buttons, receives instructions from the user to the image processing apparatus 100, and displays various information to the user.

  The communication I / F unit 104 is connected to the communication line 1 and exchanges information with various servers connected to the communication line 1.

  The image reading unit 105 includes a scanning device that reads reflected light by irradiating light to a placed document, and performs processing for reading image data of the document. The image reading unit 105 includes an automatic document feeding mechanism that can continuously read a plurality of documents.

  The print execution unit 106 performs processing for printing the image data read by the image reading unit 105 on a sheet and printing of the image data and print job received by the communication I / F unit 104.

  The IC card reading unit 107 performs a process of reading information of an IC card in which user information is registered, and the user information of the user who operates the image processing apparatus 100 is read by this process.

  The storage unit 108 is a storage device such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) or a RAM (Random Access Memory), and stores firmware of the image processing apparatus 100, processed image data, and the like.

  The document management system 40 configured as described above is a document created by N-up printing of a manuscript even when the user does not have operating authority for the manuscript placed on the image reading unit 105. In this case, the user can perform processing on the original document for which the user has an operation authority.

  The process for the original document that can be performed by the user will be described below for the copy process. However, the process is not limited to the copy process, and any process that handles image data such as a scan process or a facsimile process may be used.

  Next, the copying process performed by the image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a copy process performed by the image processing apparatus 100. FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram showing a process in which two documents are 2-up copied onto one sheet, and FIG. 2B is a 2-up view shown in FIG. 2A. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process for copying a printed sheet.

  As shown in FIG. 2A, in the image processing apparatus 100, two documents 1 and 2 are arranged in the image reading unit 105 of the image processing apparatus 100, and two documents 1 and 2 are included. -Document 3 that has been copied by copying is output.

  The process of 2-up copying document 1 and document 2 is performed by user A who has the authority to operate document 1 and document 2.

  Therefore, the user A is set to have the operation authority with respect to the security policy of the document 3 copied and output by 2-up. However, for user B who has the operation authority for document 1 but does not have the operation authority for document 2, the security policy for document 3 is set to have no operation authority.

  The user B who does not have the authority to operate the document 3 cannot copy the document 3 with a copying apparatus to which a general security policy is applied. However, in the image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention, when the user B who does not have the authority to operate the document 3 issues a copy instruction for the document 3, the document 1 and the document that are the original documents constituting the 2-up document 3 are stored. 2, the document 1 for which the user B has the operation authority is printed out.

  FIG. 2B shows a state in which only document 1 is copied and output as a result of user B issuing a copy instruction for document 3.

  As described above, in the image processing apparatus 100 constituting the document management system 40 according to the present invention, even when the processing command is issued to the N-up document, even if the user does not have the authority to operate the document, the document If there is a document having the operation authority in some of the original documents constituting the document, the user can execute processing of the document having the operation authority.

  Next, log information stored in the log information storage unit 21 of the log server 20 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a table showing the contents of the log information stored in the log information storage unit 21.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the log information includes the name of the operator who operated the image processing apparatus 100, operation date and time, operation type, operation results 1 and 2, operation document ID, number of pages, print designation, There are the original document ID for the document, the number of pages for the original document, the type of operation for the original document, the print designation for the original document, and the print area for the original document.

  The operation log indicated by reference numeral 301 in FIG. 3 is a copy log in which the two documents shown with reference to FIG.

  For example, as indicated by reference numeral 301 in FIG. 3, the content recorded in the log information storage unit 21 is 07/09/13/16: 35 (from the operation date / time column) by the user A (from the operator column). ) Has been successfully copied (from the operation type column) (from the operation result column), and the document ID of the output document is “0709abc” (from the operation document ID column). -Upd contents (from the print designation column) are printed on 5 pages (from the page number column). The document IDs of the original document with the 2-up contents are “0704ohr” and “0705neo” (from the column of the original document ID), and the document of “0704ohr” is from (0,0) to (70,50) Log information storage unit that the document “0705neo” is printed in the area (0,50) to (70,100) (from the print area column). 21.

  Further, in the operation log indicated by reference numeral 302 in FIG. 3, as a result of the user B who does not have the operation authority for the document 3 (document ID: 0709abc) performing a copy instruction, a warning is displayed and the original document information is acquired. As a result, the document “0705neo” (from the original document ID column) of the original document is reprinted on A4 paper (from the print designation column). (From the operation type column), it is recorded that one of the original documents was not printed out due to an access right error (from the original document ID column).

  Also, the operation log indicated by reference numeral 303 in FIG. 3 records the contents of the copy operation performed by the user C who has the operation authority for the document 3 (document ID: 0709abc). According to the operation log of reference number 303, the user C (from the operator's column) has a document ID of “0709abc” (from the operation document ID column) at 07/09/25/08: 41 (operation date / time). It is recorded that a copying operation has been performed (from the operation type column).

  The log server 20 stores a combination of the paper ID of the paper output from the image processing apparatus 100 and the document ID of the document printed on the paper.

  Next, processing performed in the image processing apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing performed in the image processing apparatus 100.

  In the image processing apparatus 100, the process starts when the user who operates operates the IC card in which user information is recorded over the IC card reading unit 104 of the image processing apparatus 100 to perform user authentication (step 401).

  In the user authentication, the user is read from the IC card over which the user information is held by the IC card reading unit 104, the user information is sent from the image processing apparatus 100 to the authentication server 10, and recorded in the user authentication unit 11 of the authentication server. Is confirmed, the fact that the authentication has been normally performed is sent to the image processing apparatus 100.

  When the user authentication is normally performed, the user issues a copy instruction for the document placed in the image reading unit 105 to the image processing apparatus 100 from the operation / display unit 103.

  The image processing apparatus 100 receives a document copy command from the operation / display unit 103 (step 402), and reads the document placed in the image reading unit 105 (step 403).

  When the original placed on the image reading unit 105 is read, the control unit 101 reads the paper ID of the original based on the image data of the read original (step 403).

  Then, the image processing apparatus 100 inquires of the policy server 30 whether or not the authenticated user has the operation authority for the original document based on the original sheet ID.

  The policy server 30 returns the inquiry result to the image processing apparatus 100.

  In response to the inquiry result, the image processing apparatus 100 checks whether or not the user has an operation authority for the document (step 404). If the user has the operation authority (step 404), In step 404, the print execution unit 106 prints the image data read by the image reading unit 105.

  If the user does not have the operation authority in step 404 (NO in step 404), the original document ID acquisition unit 102 in the control unit 101 inquires of the log server 20 about the document ID of the original document.

  As a result of the original document ID acquisition unit 102 inquiring about the document ID of the original document, the manuscript is N-up, and when the document ID of the original document which is the original document is acquired (NO in step 406). Further, the control unit 101 confirms whether or not there are a plurality of document IDs of the original document (step 407).

  If the document ID of the original document cannot be confirmed (NO in step 406), or if the document ID of the original document is singular and the document is composed of one document (NO in step 407), an error occurs and the process is Canceled (step 408).

  If the original document has a plurality of document IDs in step 407 and the document is an N-up paper composed of a plurality of documents (YES in step 407), the user can operate on each original document. The control unit 101 inquires of the policy server 30 whether or not there is an authority (step 409).

  As a result of the inquiry made to the policy server 30 by the control unit 101, if there is an original document for which the user has an operation authority (YES in step 410), the control unit 101 transmits the image data of the original document having the operation authority to the policy server. 30 and also receives from the log server 20 a print area, which is information on the area where the original document is placed on the original (step 411).

  Then, the control unit 101 displays on the operation / display unit 103 the original document that the user has operating authority among the original documents that constitute the document read by the image reading unit 105, and asks for a copy instruction (step 412). .

  FIG. 5 shows a screen for a copy instruction displayed on the operation / display unit 103 after step 411.

  As shown in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b), an original document for which the user has operating authority is displayed from among the original documents constituting the original arranged in the image reading unit 105, and the user desires to copy. Select a document.

  In FIG. 5A, the user can select an original document that the user desires to copy from among the 4-up originals. In FIG. 5A, the part where the original document is arranged in 4-up is expressed by a number, and the part where the original document with the operation authority is selected is selected, so that the original document desired to be copied is selected. Is selected.

  In FIG. 5B, the original document with the operation authority arranged in 4-up is displayed as a thumbnail, and the original document that the user desires to copy is selected on the screen of the operation / display unit 103.

  When the user selects an original document desired to be copied from the screen displayed on the operation / display unit 103 shown in FIG. 5 (YES in step 413), the print execution unit 106 prints the selected original document. Done.

  However, in the screen displayed on the operation / display unit 103 shown in FIG. 5, an original document for which the user does not have operation authority is displayed in an unselectable manner. Not done.

  If the user does not select the original document desired to be copied from the screen displayed on the operation / display unit 103 shown in FIG. 5 (NO in step 413), an error occurs and the process is stopped (step 408). ).

  Next, in the document management system 40, a case where image data of a document for which a security policy is registered is not stored in the policy server 30 will be described with reference to FIG.

  If no image data is stored in the policy server 30, the image data used when copying the original document performed by the image processing apparatus 100 is not the image data received from the policy server 30 but the image reading unit 105. This is read image data.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating processing performed by the image processing apparatus 100 when document image data is not stored in the policy server 30.

  As described above, even when the original document is printed not by the image data received from the policy server 30 but by the image data read by the image reading unit 105, the processing performed by the image processing apparatus 100 is described with reference to FIG. The processes in steps 401 to 410 described above are the same (steps surrounded by reference numeral 400). Therefore, description of the processing from step 401 to step 410 is omitted. In step 410, when the control unit 101 inquires the policy server 30 and there is an original document for which the user has an operation authority (YES in step 410), the control unit 101 places the original document on the original. The print area which is the information of the area thus received is received from the log server 20 (step 501).

  When the print area is received, the image data read by the image reading unit 105 is divided by the received print area, and the divided image data is used as image data of each original document.

  Then, the control unit 101 displays, on the operation / display unit 103, the original document for which the user has operation authority among the original documents constituting the document as described with reference to FIG. 5 (step 502).

  The screen displayed by using the image data of the original document described with reference to FIG. 5B uses image data read by the image reading unit 105 and divided in the print area.

  When the original document that the user desires to copy is selected from the screen displayed on the operation / display unit 103 in step 502 (YES in step 503), the image data of the selected original document is executed by the print execution unit 106. (Step 504).

  If a desired original document is not selected in step 503, an error occurs and the process is stopped (step 408).

  A document that is read by the image reading unit 105 of the image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention and on which a document with an operation authority is copied is not only the one document described with reference to FIG. A plurality of documents read by an automatic document feeding mechanism provided in the unit 105 may be used. When a plurality of originals are read by the image reading unit 105, an original document for which the user has operation authority can be selected on the plurality of read originals on the screen displayed on the operation / display unit 103. Will be displayed.

  The process for the original document of the N-up document in the image processing apparatus 100 has been described for the copy process for printing the read image data on paper. Good.

  In this embodiment, the document image data storage unit 32 that stores the image data of the document for which the security policy is set is described as being provided in the policy server 30. However, the document image data storage unit 32 is provided in another server. Alternatively, the document management system 40 may be configured such that the document management system 40 includes a dedicated server for image storage, and the dedicated image storage server includes the document image data storage unit 32.

  The present invention can be used in an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and an image processing program.

1 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a document management system 40. FIG. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a copying process performed by the image processing apparatus 100. A table showing log information stored in the log information storage unit 21. 4 is a flowchart showing processing performed in the image processing apparatus 100. The screen block diagram which shows the screen for a user to select the original document which he wants to copy. 6 is a flowchart illustrating processing performed by the image processing apparatus when copying is performed using an image read by an image reading unit. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing a conventional copy process of a document that is N-up and security-managed.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Authentication server 20 Log server 30 Policy server 40 Document management system 100 Image processing apparatus 101 Control part 102 Original document ID acquisition part 103 Operation / display part 104 Communication I / F part 105 Image reading part 106 Print execution part 107 IC card reading part

Claims (5)

Reading means for reading image information of a paper document including the document identification information in response to a user's operation on a printed paper document with document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents;
Extracting means for extracting the document identification information from the image information read by the reading means;
When there is no authority to operate a paper document corresponding to the document identification information extracted by the extraction unit, and the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information is acquired from the document information history management device If it is determined whether or not there is an authority to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by the user based on each document identification information of the plurality of documents, the document corresponding to the document identification information Inquiry means for making an inquiry to the operation authority management device that manages the operation authority corresponding to the user,
As a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, an operation screen capable of instructing the shift to the image processing of the authorized document is displayed. Screen display means for
An image processing apparatus comprising: image processing means for processing image information of a document when an image processing of an authorized document is instructed on the operation screen. The screen display means includes
Displaying the operation screen having first instruction means for instructing to stop the operation and second instruction means for instructing to continue the operation of the authorized document;
The image processing means includes
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the second instruction unit is operated, the image information of the authorized document is processed among the image information read by the reading unit. As a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, it has an acquisition means for acquiring image information of an authorized document from the image storage device,
The screen display means includes
Displaying the operation screen having first instruction means for instructing to stop the operation and second instruction means for instructing to continue the operation of the authorized document;
The image processing means includes
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the second instruction unit is operated, the image information acquired by the acquisition unit is processed. An operation authority management device for managing the operation authority for a document corresponding to the document identification information corresponding to the user, a document information history management device for managing the document identification information, an image storage device for managing image data of the document, And an image processing device for processing images,
The image processing apparatus includes:
Reading means for reading image information of a paper document including the document identification information in response to a user's operation on a paper document printed with document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents;
Extracting means for extracting the document identification information from the image information read by the reading means;
When there is no authority to operate the paper document corresponding to the document identification information extracted by the extraction unit, and the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information is obtained from the document information history management apparatus. If acquired, an inquiry for inquiring of the operation authority management apparatus whether there is an authority to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by the user based on each document identification information of the plurality of documents Means,
As a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, an operation screen capable of instructing the shift to the image processing of the authorized document is displayed. Screen display means for
An image processing system comprising: an image processing unit that acquires and processes image information of a document from the image storage device when image processing of an authorized document is instructed on the operation screen. Computer
A reading unit that reads image information of a paper document including the document identification information in response to a user's operation on the printed paper document with document identification information corresponding to a document composed of a plurality of documents;
Extraction means for extracting the document identification information from the image information read by the reading means;
When there is no authority to operate a paper document corresponding to the document identification information extracted by the extraction unit, and the document identification information of the plurality of documents based on the extracted document identification information is acquired from the document information history management device If it is determined whether or not there is an authority to process each document corresponding to each document identification information based on the operation by the user based on each document identification information of the plurality of documents, the document corresponding to the document identification information Inquiry means for inquiring to the operation authority management device that manages the operation authority corresponding to the user,
As a result of the inquiry by the inquiry means, if there is an operation authority for the document corresponding to any of the document identification information acquired by the acquisition means, an operation screen capable of instructing the transfer to the image processing of the authorized document is displayed. Screen display means,
An image processing program for functioning as image processing means for processing image information of a document when image processing of an authorized document is instructed on the operation screen.

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