Image data management system for accessing image data from communication

Abstract

An image data management system includes a communication circuit network, and an image data input output apparatus and an image data registration apparatus connected to this communication circuit network. The image data output apparatus includes an image input device for taking in information represented on paper as image data, a management information input device for reading image data management information from a portable memory device, the image data management information being needed to register and manage image data inputted from the image input device, an input device for inputting command information given by a user, and an input output processing device for processing image data inputted from the image input device and sending processed image data onto the communication circuit network, on the basis of the command information inputted from the input device and the image data management information read from the management information input device. The image data registration apparatus includes a memory device for registering image data sent from the image data input output apparatus, and an image data registering device for taking in image data on the communication circuit network, providing image data thus taken in with search information needed at the time of searching the image data, and registering the image data with the search information attached thereto in the memory device.