US 2001/0012342 A1 · Electronic mail system

Abstract

An electronic mail system connected to a network includes a section for converting an image of a document surface into corresponding document image data, and a section for compressing the document image data into compression-resultant image data. The electronic mail system also includes a section for converting the compression-resultant image data into corresponding image data of a given electronic-mail format, a section for receiving information of an electronic-mail destination address, and a section for transmitting the image data of the electronic-mail format toward the electronic-mail destination address via the network. The electronic mail system may further include a section for receiving image data in an electronic mail, a section for converting the received image data into corresponding received image data of a given facsimile format, a section for expanding the received image data of the facsimile format into expansion-resultant image data, and a section for printing the expansion-resultant image data.

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Dependent claims

An electronic-mail apparatus comprising:

accepting means for accepting one or more pages of image data scanned from one or more pages of paper documents;
file format converting means for converting the accepted one or more pages of image data into a file format capable of including a plurality of image data in a file;
mail format converting means for converting the image data converted into the file format into an electronic-mail format;
destination address acquiring means for acquiring a destination address of an electronic-mail;
and
electronic-mail transmitting means for transmitting the image data converted into the electronic-mail format to the acquired destination address.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronic mail system

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Abstract

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