Patent ID: 7649644
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing system including an image processing device and a plurality of external stations connected to the image processing device through a network, the image processing device comprising: a scanner unit reading image data from a document; an image memory storing a plurality of image data read from documents by using the scanner unit; a transmission unit transmitting an image file, derived from the stored image data of the image memory, to one of the plurality of external stations through the network; and an operation unit selecting one of the external stations as a destination station which receives the image file through the network, by input information; wherein said one of the external stations comprises a file format selection unit which selects one of a plurality of file formats from a file format list, as a file format of an image file received at said one of the plurality of external stations, in accordance with input information input by an operator on said one of the external stations, and wherein the image processing device further comprises: a storage unit that stores the file format list containing the file format selected for said one of the external stations; and a file combining unit combining a plurality of image files to produce a combined image file from the plurality of image data from the image memory, in accordance with the selected file format from the file format list of the storage unit, before the image file transmission.