Patent ID: 8122054

Claim:
An image data processing system configured to communicate with an external apparatus through a network, the system comprising: an image data storage unit that stores image data from a document reader, or image data received through the network; a destination information registration unit that registers information regarding a destination external apparatus to which the image data stored in the storage unit is to be transmitted; an operation unit that receives an instruction indicating the image data stored in the storage unit, the destination external apparatus to which the image data is to be transmitted, and information indicating whether to transmit the image data as an attachment file of email data or to transmit email data including link information indicating a link to the image data; and a data transmission unit that sends the image data as the attachment file of email data when the operation unit receives the instruction to transmit the image data as the attachment file of email data, and that sends email data including link information indicating a link to the image data when the operation unit receives the instruction to transmit the email data including link information indicating a link to the image data.