Patent ID: 8451481

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires a transmission source number and a reception number of a facsimile reception document; a first registration unit that: acquires use restriction information corresponding to the transmission source number and the reception number acquired by the acquisition unit from a first storage unit for storing first correspondence relation information in which use restriction information of documents and transmission source numbers and reception numbers of facsimile communication are associated with each other, and registers second correspondence relation information in which the use restriction information and the facsimile reception document are associated with each other in a second storage unit for storing correspondence relation information between documents and use restriction information; and a reception unit that receives the facsimile reception document, wherein the transmission source number is either sent from a transmission source of the facsimile reception document, or included in the facsimile reception document, wherein the use restriction information is assigned to the facsimile reception document, and wherein the facsimile apparatus further comprises: an output unit that adds identification information of the facsimile reception document in the second storage unit to a document image of the facsimile reception document and outputs the document image with the identification information; and a preventing unit that prevents the output unit from outputting the document image until the use restriction information is assigned to the facsimile reception document.