A workflow management system includes a print control section that, upon receiving an instruction to print an electronic document used in a workflow, causes a printing device to print, together with the electronic document, identification information for identifying the workflow or an activity of the workflow, the workflow or the activity is a destination to which an image resulting from reading a printed result of the electronic document is to be taken, an identifier recognition section that recognizes the identification information read by an image reading device, and an association section that associates the image of the electronic document read in association with the identification information by the image reading device or data resulting from a process performed on the image with the destination identified by the recognized identification information.