Patent ID: 8218193

Claim:
An image forming apparatus to resize an image, comprising: a scanning unit to scan a document to generate an image; a storage unit to store a target file size to be applied during storing of the generated image, the target file size being a measure of an amount of physical storage to be occupied by the file; an image processor to resize an initial file size of the image generated by the scanning unit so that the initial file size is smaller than the target file size; and a controller to store an image having the resized file size in at least one of an external memory connected to the image forming apparatus or the storage unit installed in the image forming apparatus, wherein if an enable mode to request setting of the target file size is selected by a user interface, the controller controls a display unit to display the initial file size of the image, and if a disable mode not to request the setting of the target file size is selected, the controller stores the image having the initial file size in at least one of the external memory and an internal memory different from the storage unit.