Patent ID: 7324139

Claim:
A digital camera having a normal shooting mode and a text shooting mode, comprising: an image pickup unit which captures an image of a subject and converts the image into image data; a switching unit which switches the normal shooting mode to the text shooting mode and vice versa; a display unit which displays on a monitor a video of the subject before being shot; a transmission destination unit which selects a destination to transmit the image data to, said destination being one of a facsimile machine or an email address; a memory which stores, in a one-to-one correspondence, name, telephone number, or address of a destination, and frame display information that specifies whether guidance should be displayed during shooting; an image processing unit which performs processing including at least one of clipping and small-step gray scaling to the image data of an image captured in the text shooting mode, and further effecting data processing by means of character recognition to resulting processed image data, the image processing being different for the email address and the facsimile machine, wherein the image processing unit detects a shooting angle of the digital camera with respect to the subject, in the text shooting mode, the memory stores shooting condition data in a one-to-one correspondence along with the image data, and the image processing unit effects the image processing to the image data based on said shooting condition data, and said display unit controls display and non-display of the guidance on said monitor in accordance with said frame display information stored in said memory.