Image handling system and method

Abstract

An image handling system and method which can be executed by such a system. The system comprises: a plurality of scanner stations remote from one another, each scanner station having: a scanner system which can scan a hardcopy image set to obtain a corresponding hardcopy image set signal and which can assign an associated identification signal to the set signal which comprises a scanner location identification, wherein each scanner location identification is unique; a first communication means for communicating the image set signal and the associated scanner identification signal to a remote hub station, which comprises a second communications means to receive image set signals and their respective associated identification signals from each of the plurality of scanner systems; a first storage to store the image set signals and associated identification signals; a third communication means for transmitting the image set signals to any of a plurality of terminals which are remote from the scanner stations and the hub station and connected to the hub station.

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