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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2015
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Saka, Toyohashi, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC, Chiyoda-Ku. Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic document generation apparatus includes a processing execution unit that executes first processing for generating an electronic document on the basis of a scanned image of an original document. When data to be used in second processing executed by a cooperative apparatus of the electronic document generation apparatus is generated by one of a plurality of sub-processes of the first processing, the processing execution unit transmits the data to the cooperative apparatus at a stage where there is a remaining unexecuted process among the sub-processes, and continues with execution of the remaining unexecuted process among the sub-processes. The electronic document generation apparatus receives a result of the second processing executed on the data by the cooperative apparatus from the cooperative apparatus, and generates the electronic document on the basis of the result of the second processing and the result of the first processing executed by the processing execution unit.