System and method for managing documents with multiple applications

Abstract

A method and system for managing documents, where the system includes a document manager server connected to image processing devices and to applications via a network. The document manager server receives an identification from the image processing devices; looks up a profile and transmits the profile to the image processing devices. The profile includes information about the applications connected to the document manager server. The document manager server can receive a job information, e.g., a document, from the image processing devices; process the job information and transmit the processed information to the applications connected to the document manager server. The applications can include for example an e-mail server, a fax server, a file format conversion system, an optical character recognition system, a document management system and a file storage system.

1 . A method for managing documents, comprising the steps of: 
 receiving an identification information at a document manager server from an image processing device;    looking up a profile based on said identification information at said document manager server, wherein said profile includes information about an application connected to said document manager server via a network; and    transmitting said profile from said document manager server to said image processing device.