Patent Document ID: 8104685
Application ID: 12103146

Base Claim:
1. A multi-function apparatus, comprising: a scan device to scan a document having a text and a barcode and to output a scan image of the document, wherein the barcode includes information of the text of the document; a barcode decoding unit to decode the barcode included in the scan image, to extract the text of the document from the barcode, and to output the extracted text; a document editing unit to include at least one of the scan image and the extracted text in another document and to produce the another document; an e-mail transmitting unit to attach the text extracted by the barcode decoding unit or the another document produced by the document editing unit to an e-mail and transmit the e-mail; and a control unit to set a scan resolution of the scan device according to one of a plurality of modes, wherein the plurality of modes include a first mode to transmit the extracted text via the e-mail without the scan image and a second mode to transmit the extracted text via the e-mail together with the scan image.

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Claim 7:
7. The multi-function apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a format of the another document edited by the document editing unit is a portable document format (PDF) or a hypertext markup language (HTML).