Information processing system including image forming apparatus that transmits image data to information processing apparatus and information processing apparatus that determines storage area to store image data, information processing apparatus that determines storage area to store image data, and image forming apparatus that transmits image data to information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus being capable of communicating via facsimile, the image forming apparatus including an input unit that receives input information input by a user, and outputs the input information to a first controller circuit, and the first controller circuit that transmits image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, to the information processing apparatus via the network,

• the information processing apparatus comprising:
• a second controller circuit that
• receives image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, from the image forming apparatus via the network, and
• determines a storage area to store the image data based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the facsimile transmission information and/or based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the additional information, wherein
• the first controller circuit of the image forming apparatus
• reads the additional information from the image data by executing optical character recognition on at least a part of the image data,
• generates the additional information based on the input information input in the input unit by the user, and
• where additional information of a certain item included in the additional information read from the image data is different from additional information of the certain item included in the additional information generated based on the input information input in the input unit, transmits the additional information of the certain item included in the additional information read from the image data, with a higher priority, to the information processing apparatus.

An image forming apparatus capable of communicating via facsimile and capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus comprising:

• an input unit that receives input information input by a user, and outputs the input information to a first controller circuit and
• the first controller circuit that transmits image data transmitted via facsimile, facsimile transmission information including information of one or more items about the facsimile transmission, and additional information including additional information of one or more items about the image data, in association with each other, to the information processing apparatus via the network,
• the information processing apparatus including a second controller circuit that
• receives the image data, the facsimile transmission information, and the additional information, in association with each other, from the image forming apparatus via the network, and
• determines a storage area to store the image data based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the facsimile transmission information and/or based on information of at least one item out of the information of the one or more items included in the additional information, wherein
• the first controller circuit of the image forming apparatus
• reads the additional information from the image data by executing optical character recognition on at least a part of the image data,
• generates the additional information based on the input information input in the input unit by the user, and
• where additional information of a certain item included in the additional information read from the image data is different from additional information of the certain item included in the additional information generated based on the input information input in the input unit, transmits the additional information of the certain item included in the additional information read from the image data, with a higher priority, to the information processing apparatus.