Internet facsimile and image transmission method

摘要

An Internet facsimile machine includes an e-mail generating unit and an e-mail send unit. For sending a multi-page document, the e-mail generating unit generates separate e-mails and attaches image data of a specific page of the document to one of the e-mails and image data of remaining pages to another of the e-mails. The e-mail send unit sends each e-mail. With this arrangement, regardless of the size of image data of the entire document, it is ensured that at least the specific page showing contact information of the sender is successfully sent to the recipient.

主权项

1. A transmission apparatus for transmitting image data of a document via at least one e-mail, comprising:
a document obtain unit operable to obtain the image data of the document; a mail send unit operable to, when the document is a multi-page document, generate separate e-mails, and attach image data of a specific page of the document which is obtained by the document obtain unit to a first e-mail to be sent of the separate e-mails in an instance when the specific page is the first page of the multi-page document and in an instance when the specific page is a page of the multi-page document other than the first page, the specific page containing information used for contacting the sender, and attach image data of remaining pages to either a single one or a plurality of the separate e-mails based on a determination of whether the image data of the remaining pages collectively exceeds a predetermined size; a detecting unit for detecting the information used for contacting the sender from the multi-page document; and a designation unit for designating a page as the specific page based on the detection of the information used for contacting the sender.