Patent ID: 7057772

Claim:
An image processing apparatus having read means for reading an original image as a color image, first output means for printing the image on a printing medium and outputting the image, second output means for transmitting the image to a communication partner terminal via a facsimile, and third output means for outputting the read image data to a connected information processing apparatus, comprising: designation means for designating a read mode of said read means; color transformation means for transforming a color space of the image data read by said read means into one of a plurality of color spaces; compression means for compressing the image data in one of a plurality of compression formats; and selection means for selecting a color space to be transformed by said color transformation means and a compression format of said compression means in accordance with the read mode designated by said designation means and one of said first to third output means which is to output the read image, wherein, if said designation means designates a color read mode as the read mode and said selection means selects either said first output means or said third output means, a color space to be transformed by said color transformation means is different from a color space for said second output means, and wherein, if said designation means designates the color read mode as the read mode and said selection means selects said second output means, said selection means selects only Lab color space as a color space to be transformed by said color transformation means and selects JPEG as a compression format of said compression means.