Patent ID: 8154772

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a document size detecting unit that detects a first size of a first document; a first image data generating unit that generates first image data based on a first image on the first document; a size acquiring unit that acquires a second size of a second document that can be received by a reception-side apparatus; a size comparing unit that compares the first size with the second size; a second image data generating unit that generates second image data for forming a second image on the second document from the first image data based on a comparing result of the size comparing unit; an image data transmitting unit that transmits the second image data to the reception-side apparatus; and a first transmission result outputting unit that outputs exclusively a transmission result indicating a result of transmission of the second image data to the reception-side apparatus; wherein the second image data generating unit generates the second image data by reducing the first image data when the size comparing unit determines that the second size is smaller than the first size, and wherein the transmission result contains at least one of size information indicating the second size and ratio information indicating a ratio of the first size to the second size.