Abstract: This invention is an image processing system which includes an input controller having a CPU adapted to dot and compress density or tone data for an image read out by an input unit and for temporarily staying said compressed image data at a buffer; a work station providing a second CPU adapted to picture-edit not only a code information edited by an editing input unit but also the image data by the use of an input operating means and a display means; a file server including a third CPU connected to the input controller and the work station by bus lines and for storing the image data, code information and edited data picture-edited by the work station in the file server; and an image setter having a fourth CPU for reading out the edited data stored in the file server and subjecting the edited data to a required data processing, thereby outputting an image over an image output unit characterized in that the input controller, the file server, the work station and the image setter are individually and independent