DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device capable of storing history information on an original image in the original itself and using it, when the original image is updated more than once by writing by hand, etc. SOLUTION: An MFP 100 reads an image of an original with an IC tag by an image reading part 150, gets original image data, and writes the data in an electronic tag of the original as history information on the original image by an IC tag reading/writing part 140. The MFP 100 also writes differential image data in the electronic tag of the original as history information on the original image. The differential image data are obtained by extracting a difference in the image data related to the history information stored in the original image data and the IC tag. In addition, the MFP 100 is capable of reading desired history information from the electronic tag of the original and printing or erasing it. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI