Patent ID: 6906820

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: a scanner configured to scan a document to obtain binary image data; an adder that adds paper size information indicating a paper size of the scanned document to the obtained binary image data; a converter that converts the binary image data including the paper size information, into e-mail data; and a transmitter that transmits the converted e-mail data including the paper size information to a destination terminal over a network so that the destination terminal can determine whether to downsize the binary image data in the e-mail data in accordance with the paper size information, said scanner being configured to scan plural documents to obtain the binary image data and said adder being configured to add the paper size information in units of one page, whereby image data for each respective page comprises the paper size information and the binary image data for the respective page and said converter converts the image data including the binary image data and the paper size information into text codes to obtain e-mail data, the e-mail data comprising the text codes for the image data and a header, whereby the e-mail data can be treated by simple mail transfer protocol of an e-mail communication.