Image forming apparatus and document management method thereof

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• an image scanner to scan a document comprising a bar code and to generate the scanned image;
• a storage unit to store therein the scanned image;
• and
• a controller to determine whether to perform an optical character recognition (OCR) on the scanned image by using bar code information of the generated scanned image, to extract character information of the document by performing the OCR on the scanned image according to the determination result, to set a file name by using at least one of the bar code information and the extracted character information, and stores the generated scanned image in the storage unit.

A method of managing documents, the method comprising:

• scanning a document having a bar code with an image forming apparatus;
• extracting character information of the scanned document with the image forming apparatus;
• generating a file name with at least one of information of the scanned bar code and the extracted character information;
• and
• storing the scanned image in a storage unit.

A method of printing a document onto a printing media with an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

• receiving a print command to print the document with the image forming apparatus;
• receiving a bar code type and document information of the document with the image forming apparatus;
• generating a bar code with the received document information according to the received bar code type;
• and
• printing the document with the generated bar code in a predetermined location on the printing media.