1. An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus configured to function as a groupware terminal; and a groupware server of a groupware, said groupware server comprising: plural document databases configured to store document data; and an attribute database configured to store multiple lists of different plural kinds of attribute information, each kind of the attribute information being setting items unique to each document database, the setting items being required to be set when storing the document data in the document database, said image forming apparatus comprising: a scan part configured to scan a paper document and to obtain document data; a first display screen that displays a selection screen enabling selection of one of the plural document databases; an acquiring part configured to acquire one of the lists of attribute information from the attribute database corresponding to the selected document database; a second display screen that displays an input screen to set the unique predetermined setting items included in the acquired list of attribute information; a setting part configured to add the attribute information including the set setting items to the document data obtained by the scan part; and a sending part configured to send to the groupware server the document data having the added attribute information, said groupware server storing the document data having the added attribute information including the set setting items, received from the sending part, in the document database.
1. An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus configured to function as a groupware terminal; and a groupware server of a groupware, said groupware server comprising: plural document databases configured to store document data; and an attribute database configured to store multiple lists of different plural kinds of attribute information, each kind of the attribute information being setting items unique to each document database, the setting items being required to be set when storing the document data in the document database, said image forming apparatus comprising: a scan part configured to scan a paper document and to obtain document data; a first display screen that displays a selection screen enabling selection of one of the plural document databases; an acquiring part configured to acquire one of the lists of attribute information from the attribute database corresponding to the selected document database; a second display screen that displays an input screen to set the unique predetermined setting items included in the acquired list of attribute information; a setting part configured to add the attribute information including the set setting items to the document data obtained by the scan part; and a sending part configured to send to the groupware server the document data having the added attribute information, said groupware server storing the document data having the added attribute information including the set setting items, received from the sending part, in the document database. 7. The image forming system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein: said first display screen of said image forming apparatus is further configured to display a list of the document data stored in the selected document database in response to an input, and to display a search part enabling searching of a document data from the list based on a search key.