Patent ID: 7193745

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for enabling manual designation of a plurality of image-data storage destinations for image data that can be read in a plurality of reading modes prior to transmission of image data from the storage destination comprising: an image reading unit adapted to read a document image in a plurality of reading modes and to generate color image data of the document image and monochrome image data of the document image; a manually controlled input unit that designates a plurality of storage destinations in a memory of image data corresponding to the document image read by said image reading unit in response to an instruction by a user, said input unit comprising a display: configured to display a plurality of storage destinations in a memory into one of which color image data of the document image and monochrome image data of the document image will be stored in response to an instruction by the user designating one of the displayed storage destinations; and configured to display a plurality of reading modes including a color reading mode and a monochrome reading mode in one of which the document image will be read by said image reading unit in response to an instruction by the user designating one of the displayed reading modes, a file creating unit adapted to create a file in the memory at the manually designated destination into which the image data corresponding to the document image will be stored, and from which the image data will be transmitted in response to an instruction by a user; and a controller adapted to register the document image which was read by said image reading unit both as the color image data and as the monochrome image data in the file which was created by said file creating unit at the manually designated destination after designating one of the reading modes displayed by said input unit.