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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1995
Yoshihisa Tadokoro, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communicating apparatus to communicate image data such as in a facsimile apparatus comprises: a receiving circuit to receive image information from a distant side terminal; a recognition section to perform the character recognition on the basis of the received information from the receiving circuit; and a transmitting circuit to transmit an abnormal reception signal to the distant side terminal when the recognition by the recognition section cannot be executed. The recognition section discriminates whether the received image information has been obtained by reading an OCR sheet or not. When an unrecognizable character exists on a received document, the unrecognizable character position, the result of the recognition, an abnormal reception signal, the input image data, and a request for retransmission of the image data are sent back from the distant side terminal to the transmitting side apparatus, so that the image data can be automatically retransmitted therefrom by the simple operation.