JP4651053B2 - FAX server and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a FAX server and a program that mediate a FAX document transmitted / received between facsimile apparatuses.

  Various techniques for preventing erroneous transmission in data transmission by a facsimile (hereinafter abbreviated as “FAX”) apparatus are known. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses an example of a technique for preventing an erroneous call due to a sender having mistaken the number of a destination FAX apparatus. In this technique, a destination FAX number is encoded in a two-dimensional code, and the FAX apparatus reads and uses it.

JP 2007-110421 A

  However, in the conventional system, although erroneous transmission due to the number difference can be prevented, other erroneous transmissions cannot be prevented. For example, although the destination number is correctly specified as intended by the sender, the content of the document itself to be transmitted is erroneous transmission. Such erroneous transmission includes a case where a document to be transmitted is mistaken, or a case where a document including contents that should not be transmitted outside the company is transmitted for reasons of confidentiality.

  The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a FAX server and a program for preventing transmission of a document containing inappropriate contents in FAX transmission.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the FAX server according to the present invention is
A FAX server that mediates a FAX document transmitted from the transmission-side FAX apparatus to the reception-side FAX apparatus, a function for receiving a FAX document transmitted from the transmission-side FAX apparatus, and a barcode printed on the FAX document Is a function that obtains information about the approver that has been encrypted and decrypts it to obtain information about the approver. The information about the approver is the email address of the approver and the approver. A function for acquiring information about an approver including an approval code for authentication, a function for transmitting a FAX document to an approver based on information about the approver, and a FAX document based on input from the approver It includes a function of determining whether to transmit to the receiving FAX apparatus, and a function of transmitting to the receiving FAX apparatus FAX document if it is determined to transmit a bar code Includes information on a plurality of approvers, and the function for determining whether or not to transmit the FAX document to the receiving FAX apparatus based on the input from the approver is a first determination method, A first determination method and a second determination method for determining to transmit if the input from all of the items represents approval, and to determine not to transmit otherwise. If the input from at least one of them represents approval, it is determined to transmit, otherwise it is determined not to transmit, and the second determination method is executed. is one to be based in the determination method and second determination method of Ru is changeable set.

The information on the approver includes an approver ID for identifying the approver, and the FAX server may have a function of storing the approver ID and an approval code corresponding to the approver in association with each other.
The FAX server may further acquire information related to the transmission destination of the transmission document by reading the barcode.
The barcode may be a QR code (registered trademark) .
Also, a program according to the present invention causes the computer to function as described FAX server.

  According to the FAX server and the program according to the present invention, according to the content of the barcode printed on the transmission FAX document, the information regarding the FAX document is presented to the approver, and the approver inputs the approval or rejection of the transmission. And determines whether or not to perform transmission according to this input. For this reason, the approver can confirm the content of the FAX document and determine approval before transmitting the document, and can prevent transmission of a document including inappropriate content. For example, it is possible to prevent mistaken transmission of documents to be transmitted and erroneous transmission of confidential information.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 shows a configuration including a FAX server 100 according to the present invention. The FAX server 100 is an apparatus that mediates a FAX document transmitted from the transmitting FAX apparatus to the receiving FAX apparatus. The transmission target is not actually the FAX document itself but data representing the FAX document. However, in this specification, this may be simply referred to as a FAX document.
The FAX server 100 has a configuration as a well-known computer. That is, although not shown in the figure, a calculation means for performing calculation and a storage means for storing information are provided. The arithmetic means includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and the storage means includes a semiconductor memory and an HDD (Hard Disk Drive). The storage means stores a program, and the FAX server 100 realizes the functions described in the present specification by the arithmetic means executing the program.

The FAX server 100 is communicably connected to the approval terminal 10 and the printer 20 via the LAN 51. The approval terminal 10 is a computer having a well-known configuration, and is operated by a user having an approval authority as to whether or not to approve transmission of a FAX document. The printer 20 is a printing apparatus having a known configuration and has a function of receiving and printing data transmitted from the approval terminal 10 or the FAX server 100.
Further, the FAX server 100 is connected via an extension network 52 so as to be able to transmit and receive a FAX document with one or more FAX apparatuses. The extension network 52 is, for example, a well-known extension telephone line network. One of the FAX apparatuses connected to the extension network 52 is referred to as a transmitting FAX apparatus 30 below.
Further, the FAX server 100 is connected to one or more FAX apparatuses via the external network 53 so as to be able to transmit and receive FAX documents. The external line network 53 is, for example, a well-known public telephone line network. One of the FAX apparatuses connected to the outside line network 53 is referred to as a receiving FAX apparatus 40 below.
FAX communication between the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30 and the reception-side FAX apparatus 40 and the FAX server 100 is performed in accordance with, for example, the G3 facsimile standard, but this may be in accordance with another FAX standard.

The FAX server 100 stores and stores a customer master 110 and a transmission waiting list 120 as information for managing transmission of FAX documents in the storage means.
FIG. 2 shows a configuration of the customer master 110 including information related to a customer who is a transmission destination of a FAX document. Customer master 110 includes a customer code which is information for identifying each of a plurality of customers. Each customer code is associated with a customer FAX number, customer name, and customer department name. The customer FAX number is a telephone number (that is, a FAX number) to be specified when transmitting a FAX document with the customer's FAX device as the destination, the customer name is the name of the customer, and the customer department signature is FAX at the customer. The name of the department that should receive the document.

FIG. 3 shows a configuration of the transmission waiting list 120 including information indicating the transmission status of the FAX document. The transmission waiting list 120 includes transmission document serial numbers for identifying each of a plurality of FAX transmission documents. Each transmission document serial number is associated with a reception date and time, a transmission destination customer code, a transmission destination customer FAX number, and a transmission status. The reception date and time represents the date and time when the FAX document was received by the FAX server 100 from the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30. The transmission destination customer code and the transmission destination customer FAX number represent the customer and the customer FAX number, which are destinations to which the FAX document is to be transmitted, as in FIG.
The transmission status represents the progress status of transmission of the FAX document. For example, after the FAX document transmitted from the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30 is received by the FAX server 100 and before transmission to the reception-side FAX apparatus 40 is approved, the transmission status is “waiting for approval”. In addition, after the transmission to the receiving FAX apparatus 40 is approved, “transmission” is performed before the transmission is completed, and “transmission is completed” after the transmission is completed.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a fax cover sheet 200 used when sending a fax document. A barcode 210 is printed on the fax cover sheet 200. Here, the barcode 210 is a QR code which is a kind of two-dimensional code, for example, as illustrated. However, the barcode 210 may be another two-dimensional code, a one-dimensional barcode, or any code as long as information can be encoded. The barcode 210 is printed on the FAX cover sheet 200 with a predetermined size and a predetermined orientation. The FAX server 100 has a function of recognizing the barcode 210. That is, the barcode 210 can be read and information encoded in the barcode 210 can be acquired.
Further, the fax cover sheet 200 includes a destination, sender, date of transmission, the number of sheets to be sent, a message related to transmission, and the like, similar to the FAX cover sheet used for transmission by a conventional FAX apparatus.

  In the first embodiment, the barcode 210 includes information representing a customer code, an encrypted email address, and an encrypted authorization code. Here, this customer code corresponds to the customer who is the transmission destination of the FAX transmission using the FAX cover sheet 200, and the e-mail address has the authority to approve the FAX transmission using the FAX cover sheet 200. And the approval code is a password used for authenticating the approver. The authorization code and the e-mail address are encrypted by a method using, for example, a hash function, which may be performed by other well-known encryption techniques as long as the FAX server 100 can perform encryption or decryption. Good.

The operation of the FAX server 100 configured as described above will be described below.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process flow when the FAX server 100 transmits a FAX document. This process is started when the FAX server 100 receives a FAX document from the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30 (step S1). The received FAX document will be referred to as “transmission document” below. The FAX server 100 scans the first page of the transmission document and determines whether or not the barcode 210 is included (step S2). If it is determined that the barcode 210 is not included, the FAX server 100 instructs the printer 20 to print error information (step S12). That is, information for specifying the transmission document, for example, an image of a transmission document serial number and a FAX cover sheet, and a message notifying that a barcode is not included are transmitted to the printer 20 as print data.

When it is determined in step S2 that the barcode 210 is included, the FAX server 100 recognizes and reads the barcode 210 (step S3). Here, the bar code 210 includes the customer code, the encrypted e-mail address, and the encrypted approval code as described above, and the FAX server 100 reads the information. Further, the FAX server 100 decrypts the encrypted information (step S4). As a result, the FAX server 100 acquires an e-mail address and an approval code.
Next, the FAX server 100 determines whether or not the barcode 210 is consistent (step S5). Here, when the barcode 210 cannot be recognized, and when the e-mail address and the approval code cannot be decrypted, it is determined that there is no consistency. Furthermore, in this step S5, the FAX server 100 searches the customer master 110 based on the read customer code, and determines that there is no consistency when there is no corresponding data. In this way, it is determined that there is consistency only when the barcode 210 is recognized, information is read, the encrypted data is decrypted, and the customer code exists in the customer master 110.
If it is determined that the barcode 210 is not consistent, the FAX server 100 instructs the printer 20 to print error information (step S12). That is, information for specifying the transmission document, for example, an image of a transmission document serial number and a FAX cover page, and a message notifying that the barcode 210 is not consistent are transmitted to the printer 20 as print data.

  If it is determined in step S5 that the barcode 210 is consistent, the FAX server 100 adds information related to the transmission document to the transmission waiting list 120 (step S6). Here, the transmission document serial number is a serial number managed by the FAX server 100. For example, the FAX server 100 increments this by 1 each time step S6 is executed. The reception date and time is, for example, the current time held by the FAX server 100 when step S6 is executed. The destination customer code is the customer code acquired in step S3. The transmission destination customer FAX number is acquired by searching the customer master 110 using the acquired customer code. The transmission status is “waiting for approval” in step S6.

Next, the FAX server 100 performs a transmission approval reception process (step S7). This process is a process of prompting the approver to input whether to approve transmission of the transmission document and accepting the input.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of details of step S7, that is, the transmission approval acceptance process. Step S7 includes steps S71 to S74.
First, the FAX server 100 transmits an e-mail for requesting an approval operation to the approver (step S71). The destination e-mail address is the one included in the barcode 210, that is, the one decrypted in step S4 described above. This e-mail includes image data corresponding to all pages of the transmission document and customer information for the approver to specify the destination customer. The customer information includes, for example, a customer code, a customer FAX number, a customer name, and a customer department signature. The FAX server 100 searches for the customer master 110 by using the customer code acquired in step S3 described above. Get information.
In addition, this e-mail includes a URL representing an approval operation Web page managed by the FAX server 100, and is content that prompts the approver to access this Web page.

The subsequent steps S72 to S74 are performed according to the HTTPS protocol.
The FAX server 100 accepts access to the approval operation Web page (step S72). In response to this access, the FAX server 100 creates an approval operation Web page and transmits it for display (step S73). This approval operation Web page is described using the HTML language, and is assumed to be displayed using a well-known Web browser. In addition, this Web page is configured using, for example, an INPUT tag so as to transmit the operation content for the screen on which the Web page is displayed to the FAX server 100. The contents of the INPUT tag include an input field for an approval code, a button indicating transmission approval, and a button indicating transmission rejection.
Thereafter, the FAX server 100 receives an operation for this Web page (step S74). This operation is a combination of inputting an approval code and clicking a transmission approval button, or clicking a transmission rejection button.

  Next, the FAX server 100 determines whether or not transmission of the transmission document has been approved (step S8 in FIG. 5). At this time, if the transmission approval button is clicked in step S74 and the approval code input in step S74 matches the approval code decrypted in step S4, it is determined that the approval has been made. If the transmission rejection button is clicked in step S74, it is determined that the request has not been approved, that is, it has been rejected. Further, when the transmission approval button is clicked but the approval codes do not match, it is determined that the approval code is not approved as an example, but as another example, a process for requesting re-input of the approval code may be executed.

  When the transmission is approved in step S8, the FAX server 100 transmits the transmission document (step S9). At this time, first, the transmission status of the transmission document is changed to “sending” in the transmission waiting list 120 (FIG. 3), and then the transmission document is transmitted to the destination customer FAX number. For example, the receiving FAX machine 40 in FIG. 1 corresponds to the destination customer FAX number. When this transmission is completed, the transmission status is changed to “transmission complete”. Here, the process of FIG. 5 ends.

If the transmission is not approved in step S8, the FAX server 100 instructs the printer 20 to print error information (step S10). That is, information specifying the transmission document, for example, an image of a transmission document serial number and a fax cover page, and a message notifying that the transmission has not been approved are transmitted to the printer 20 as print data. Thereafter, the FAX server 100 deletes information related to the transmission document from the transmission waiting list 120 (FIG. 3) (step S11), and the processing of FIG.
As described above, the FAX server 100 determines whether or not to transmit the transmission document to the reception-side FAX apparatus 40 based on the input from the approver in Step S74.

An example of the flow of FAX transmission work using the FAX server 100 that operates as described above will be described below.
In advance, the approver of the FAX document creates a barcode 210 and creates a large number of FAX cover sheets 200 on which the barcode 210 is printed so that the sender can use it freely. The barcode 210 is created using a well-known technique, and includes a destination customer code, an encrypted email address input by the approver, and an encrypted approval code input by the approver. . The e-mail address and the authorization code are encrypted by a method that can be decrypted by the FAX server 100 using a known encryption technique. Here, since the FAX cover sheet 200 includes the customer code of the transmission destination, the approver needs to create the FAX cover sheet 200 for each transmission destination.

  The sender of the FAX document adds a FAX cover sheet 200 to the first page of the document to be transmitted, and makes this a transmission document. The sender transmits this from the transmission side FAX apparatus 30 to the FAX server 100. This transmission processing is the same as transmission by a well-known FAX apparatus. For example, the transmission processing is performed by inputting a FAX number corresponding to the FAX server 100 or selecting the FAX server 100 using a general speed dial function. .

The FAX server 100 receives this transmission document in step S1 of FIG. 5, and executes the processes of FIGS.
Here, when the sender forgets to attach the fax cover sheet 200, error information is output and the process ends (steps S2 and S12). Subsequently, the barcode server 210 recognizes the barcode 210, decrypts the encrypted information, and determines consistency (steps S3 to S5). Here, since the FAX number of the transmission destination is automatically acquired based on the customer code included in the barcode 210, it is possible to avoid mistaken input of the number and prevent erroneous transmission.

  Thereafter, an approval request e-mail is transmitted (steps S6 and S71), and the approver views the e-mail using the approval terminal 10 prepared for the approval operation. As described above, this e-mail includes customer information of the transmission destination and images of all pages of the transmission document, and the approver determines whether or not transmission is possible by referring to these. Here, for example, when the transmission document contains confidential information that should not be transmitted originally, the approver can decide to reject the transmission. The approver may decide to reject the transmission even when the transmission destination and the transmission content are not consistent, that is, when the sender attaches the fax cover sheet 200 of the wrong transmission destination. it can.

After determining whether transmission is possible, the approver accesses the address of the Web page included in the e-mail and displays the approval page (steps S72 to S73). When approving the transmission, the approver inputs the approval code and clicks the transmission approval button. Otherwise, the approver clicks the transmission rejection button (step S74).
If the transmission is approved, the FAX server 100 transmits the transmission document (step S9), and the transmitted document is received by the reception-side FAX apparatus 40 that is the transmission destination. If transmission is rejected, error information is output and the process ends (steps S10 to S11).

  As described above, the FAX server 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, that is, the computer that functions as the FAX server 100 by executing a program, prints the barcode printed on the FAX cover sheet 200 of the FAX document for transmission. Information on the FAX document is presented to the approver according to the contents of 210, the approver is prompted to approve or reject the transmission, and it is determined whether or not to perform transmission according to the input. For this reason, the approver can confirm the content of the FAX document and determine approval before transmitting the document, and can prevent transmission of a document including inappropriate content. For example, it is possible to prevent mistaken transmission of documents to be transmitted and erroneous transmission of confidential information.

Further, since the FAX number of the transmission destination is stored in the customer master 110, the sender may always perform the FAX transmission work toward the FAX server 100 regardless of the transmission destination number. For this reason, transmission work can always be performed by the same simple operation, for example, selection operation of the same abbreviated dial, and erroneous transmission due to a mistaken number input by the sender can be prevented. Further, it is not necessary to enter or print the fax number on the fax cover sheet 200.
Further, the bar code 210 includes only the customer code for searching the customer master 110, and does not include the FAX number itself. This facilitates management of customer FAX numbers. For example, even if the customer's FAX number is changed, there is no need to recreate the FAX cover sheet 200, and there is no need to change the settings of each of the sending FAX devices, and only the definition contents of the customer master 110. Can be changed.

The bar code 210 includes information about the approver, that is, the approver's e-mail address and the approval code. For this reason, it is not necessary to manage information related to the approver by the FAX server 100 or the approval terminal 10, and management effort can be saved.
It is easy to read the contents of famous barcodes such as QR codes if you have a reader. However, in the barcode 210, since the authorization code is encrypted, even if the barcode 210 is read, the authorization code itself cannot be decrypted, and safety is maintained. Furthermore, since the approver's e-mail address is also encrypted, the approver's personal information is not leaked to the FAX transmission destination or outsiders. Further, unauthorized operation by an outsider who has obtained the fax cover sheet 200 can be prevented. For example, it is possible to prevent an outsider from reading the approver's e-mail address from the barcode 210 to guess the approver and performing an unauthorized operation from the approval terminal 10.
Furthermore, since the barcode 210 is a QR code, the recognition rate can be increased as compared with a general barcode.

  Further, since the barcode 210 includes information on the approver, that is, the e-mail address of the approver, different approvers can be individually assigned to the same transmission destination for printing, and the degree of management is increased. . For example, when a FAX document is transmitted from one company A to another company B, the combination of sending from company A to company B is the same (even if the destination department is the same), but at the sender If departments in a company A are different, there may be cases where the approver wants to have a different configuration. Even in such a case, for example, an approver is set for each floor of the building, or an approver is set for each sending FAX machine, so that the approver is different for each department. Can respond.

  Further, the FAX server 100 performs transmission / reception of data between the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30 and the reception-side FAX apparatus 40 in accordance with a normal FAX standard. For this reason, when installing the FAX server 100, the transmission-side FAX apparatus 30 only needs to specify the FAX number of the transmission destination to the FAX server 100, and other setting change work is unnecessary, and the existing equipment is effectively used. be able to. In addition, the receiving-side FAX apparatus 40 does not require any setting change work.

In the first embodiment described above, the barcode 210 is printed with a predetermined size and a predetermined orientation. As a modification, the barcode 210 may be printed in any manner as long as the FAX server 100 can recognize the encoded information, and may be printed in different sizes and orientations.
Further, the FAX server 100 may have various functions as a multifunction peripheral in addition to the functions described above. For example, the FAX server 100 may be a FAX OCR server having a well-known OCR (Optical Character Reader) function.

In step S7 of the first embodiment, the FAX server 100 transmits a transmission document by transmitting an e-mail to the approver. Further, the FAX server 100 accepts an input from the approver via the approval operation Web page. As a modification, transmission / reception of information to the approver in step S7 may be performed by other processing.
For example, in the e-mail addressed to the approver, only the URL representing the approval operation Web page is described, and the transmission document may not be attached. In this case, the FAX server 100 may transmit the transmission document to the approver in response to access from the approver.
Further, a dedicated program for approval work may be installed in the approval terminal 10. In this case, the approval terminal 10 may execute the dedicated program to receive the data of the transmission document from the FAX server 100. The approval terminal 10 executes the dedicated program to receive the input of the approver and transmit it to the FAX server 100. Also good.
The barcode 210 may include information regarding a plurality of approvers. In such a case, the transmission approval acceptance process (step S7) may be executed in parallel for each approver. Further, in the approval determination (step S8), it may be determined that the transmission is approved only when all the approvers approve, and it may be determined that the transmission is rejected otherwise, and at least one approver May be determined that the transmission has been approved, and it may be determined that the transmission has been rejected only when all the approvers have rejected. Such an approval determination method may be set in advance for the FAX server 100, and this setting may be changeable.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
In the second embodiment, the information related to the approver is stored in the FAX server in the first embodiment, and the bar code includes only the customer code and the approver ID. Only the parts different from the first embodiment will be described below.
FIG. 7 shows the configuration of the FAX server 101 according to the second embodiment. The FAX server 101 includes a customer master 110, a transmission waiting list 120, and an approval key master 130. The configurations of the customer master 110 and the transmission waiting list 120 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and are shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.

FIG. 8 shows the configuration of the approval key master 130 including information related to the approver. The approval key master 130 includes an approver ID that is information for identifying each of the plurality of approvers. Each approver ID is associated with an approval code corresponding to the approver and an e-mail address. Here, the approval code stored in the approval key master 130 is encrypted.
The fax cover sheet 200 includes a barcode 210 as in the first embodiment. However, unlike the first embodiment, the information encoded in the bar code 210 is only the customer code and the encrypted approver ID. That is, the approver's email address and approval code are not included.

In the second embodiment, as in the first embodiment, an approver of a FAX document creates a barcode 210 in advance, and creates a large number of FAX cover sheets 200 on which the barcode 210 is printed so that the sender can use it freely. deep.
The FAX server 101 according to the second embodiment operates according to the flowchart of FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. However, the FAX server 101 recognizes the barcode 210 in step S3, reads the customer code and the encrypted approver ID, and decrypts the approver ID in step S4.
In step S5, the FAX server 101 searches for the customer code in the same manner as in the first embodiment, and searches the approval key master 130 based on the decrypted approver ID. Only when both the customer code and the approver ID exist, it is determined that the bar code 210 is consistent, and when neither one exists, it is determined that there is no consistency.
Further, the approval code and the approver mail address related to the acquired approver ID are acquired from the approval key master 130.
Other operations are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  As described above, the FAX server 101 according to the second embodiment of the present invention, that is, the computer that functions as the FAX server 101 by executing a program, transmits a FAX document for transmission as in the first embodiment. Depending on the content of the barcode 210 printed on the form 200, information on the FAX document is presented to the approver, prompting the approver to approve or reject the transmission, and whether or not to perform transmission according to the input. decide. For this reason, the approver can confirm the content of the FAX document and determine approval before transmitting the document, and can prevent transmission of a document including inappropriate content. For example, it is possible to prevent mistaken transmission of documents to be transmitted and erroneous transmission of confidential information.

In the second embodiment, since the barcode 210 does not include the approval code, the barcode 210 can be created even if the user is not an approver and knows the approver ID. For this reason, the sender can appropriately create the fax cover sheet 200, which improves convenience. Further, since the barcode 210 does not include the approval code, the approval code itself is kept safe even if the decoding method of the approval code is leaked.
Furthermore, since the information included in the barcode 210 is only the customer code and the approver ID, and the amount of information is small compared to the first embodiment, the barcode 210 can be further downsized. Alternatively, it is possible to increase the redundancy with the same size so that the recognition can be made more reliably.
In the second embodiment, the approver ID included in the barcode 210 is encrypted, but it may be encoded without being encrypted. That is, the FAX server 101 may directly read the approver ID in step S3. In this case, step S4 is omitted.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the FAX server which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention, and its periphery. It is a figure which shows the structure of the customer master of FIG. It is a figure which shows the structure of the transmission waiting list | wrist of FIG. 3 is an example of a fax cover page used when a fax document is transmitted by the fax server of FIG. 1. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of the FAX server 100 in FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of step S7 of FIG. It is a figure which shows the structure of the FAX server which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the approval key master of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  10 Approval terminal, 20 Printer, 30 Sending FAX machine, 40 Receiving FAX machine, 51 LAN, 52 Extension network, 53 External network, 100, 101 FAX server, 110 Customer master, 120 Transmission waiting list, 130 Approval key master, 200 fax cover page, 210 barcode.

Claims (5)

A FAX server that mediates a FAX document transmitted from a transmitting FAX apparatus to a receiving FAX apparatus,
A function of receiving a FAX document transmitted from the transmission-side FAX apparatus;
It is a function of reading the barcode printed on the FAX document, obtaining information on the encrypted approver, decrypting the information, and obtaining information on the approver, and the information on the approver is: A function of obtaining information about the approver, including an email address of the approver and an approval code for authenticating the approver;
A function of transmitting the FAX document to the approver based on information on the approver;
A function for determining whether to transmit the FAX document to the receiving FAX device based on an input from the approver;
A function of transmitting the FAX document to the receiving FAX device when it is determined to transmit ;
The barcode includes a plurality of information on the approver,
Based on an input from the approver, the function of determining whether to transmit the FAX document to the receiving FAX device is:
A first determination method, wherein if the input from all of the approvers represents approval, it is determined to transmit; otherwise, it is determined not to transmit;
A second determination method, wherein when input from at least one of the approvers represents approval, it is determined to transmit, and otherwise, it is determined not to transmit When,
Run based on one of
Which of the first determination method and the second determination method is set to be changeable is a FAX server. The information on the approver includes an approver ID for identifying the approver,
The FAX server according to claim 1, wherein the FAX server has a function of storing the approver ID and an approval code corresponding to the approver in association with each other. The FAX server according to claim 1, wherein the FAX server further acquires information related to a transmission destination of the transmission document by reading the barcode.   The FAX server according to claim 1, wherein the bar code is a QR code. The program for functioning a computer as a FAX server as described in any one of Claims 1-4 .

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