Image handling apparatus, image processing system, image process controlling method, and image process controlling program product

An image handling apparatus, comprising:

• an operation panel displaying one or more input screens, including a web browser, allowing to input image handle information including one or more scan settings for handling an image, the one or more input screen is displayed based on HTML data received from a web application of an external web server capable of connecting through a network, and receiving a user instruction of an image generation from the web browser displaying at least one of the input screens;
• hardware resource including a scanner for generating an image;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to
• transmit a first message including a scan setting from among the one or more scan settings, in response to the input at the web browser displaying at least one of the input screens, to the web application
• transmit a second message to the web application in response to receiving the user instruction of an image generation,
• receive image generation information for the scanner to execute an image generation including the one or more scan settings, from the web application, in response to the transmitted second message, transmitted to the web application from the web browser included in the image handling apparatus, and
• control the scanner to execute the image generation, wherein
• the first message including the scan setting is transmitted to the web application in a plurality of times, in response to each input of the scan setting on at least one of the input screens, and
• the image generation information including the plurality of scan settings, is transmitted from the web application to control the scanner, in response to the user instruction of the image generation on the image handling apparatus.