Patent ID: 8237994

Claim:
An information processing apparatus having a facsimile function of transmitting data to an external apparatus and being capable of communicating with a terminal through a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit which stores file data from the terminal; a detection unit which detects whether the file data stored in the storage unit has specific format comprising character data and instructing information in the file data to be transmitted by the facsimile function; a transmission data generation unit which is configured to read the character data of the file data and generate transmission data comprising image data based on the read character data of the file data when the file data is detected as having the specific format comprising the character data which comprises destination information identifying the external apparatus, wherein the destination information is arranged at a predetermined portion of the character data; a transmission unit which is configured to transmit the transmission data to the external apparatus identified by the destination information using the facsimile function, and a font data storage unit configured to store font data, wherein the character data comprises a character, wherein the font data comprises a character image corresponding to the character, and wherein the transmission data generation unit generates the transmission data by reading the character of the character data and referencing the character image corresponding to the read character.