Patent ID: 8594327

Claim:
A scanned image transmitting device comprising: a processor that creates an instruction file describing a process instruction in relation to a scanned image and instructing transmission via facsimile by a facsimile relay station, the instruction file including identification information corresponding to one or a plurality of facsimile numbers to which the facsimile relay station is to transmit the scanned image via facsimile; said processor creating an electronic mail attached with a file of the scanned image and the instruction file; said processor encrypting at least a portion of the electronic mail and the scanned image file and the instruction file using a public key of a transmission destination; and transmitting circuitry that transmits the encrypted electronic mail attached with the encrypted scanned image file and the encrypted instruction file to the transmission destination, the transmission destination of the electronic mail being the facsimile relay station having a function of transmitting the scanned image via facsimile; wherein the scanned image is automatically transmitted, via the facsimile relay station, to one or a plurality of facsimile numbers included in the encrypted instruction file when the encrypted instruction file that instructs transmission via facsimile is included in the electronic mail; wherein the instruction file has first mark information indicating that the file is an instruction, second mark information indicating a job instructed by the instruction file, a function description indicating a security box storage function to be executed in the job, a number description indicating a security box number as a storage location in which the scanned image is stored by the security box storage function, a password of the security box as the storage location, and a notification destination description indicating a notification destination to which a result of storage processing in the security box as the storage location is notified.