Paper identification information management system

A paper identification information management system comprising:

• a client apparatus that handles a sheet of paper bearing prescribed information;
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• a management server connected to the client apparatus via a network to comprehensively manages information about the paper handled by the client apparatus, wherein the client apparatus has a writing unit for writing on the paper bearing a unique paper ID, and an optical reader for reading the paper ID and writing from the paper, and wherein the client apparatus transmits the paper ID read from the paper to the management server via the network, and the management server searches for a document name that is associated with the paper ID and supplies the document name to the client apparatus.

A management server connected via a network to a client apparatus that handles a sheet of paper bearing prescribed information, the management server comprising:

• a paper ID assigning unit that assigns a paper ID to each sheet of paper handled by the client apparatus in response to a paper ID request and document information transmitted from the client apparatus;
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• a management table that records the paper ID assigned to the paper in association with the document information.

A client apparatus comprising:

• a pen having a writing unit for writing on a sheet of paper that bears a unique paper ID, and an optical reader for reading information from the paper;
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• a transmission control unit that receives the information read by the pen, extracts the paper ID from the information, and specifies an application required to process the information based on the extracted paper ID.