Information providing apparatus, transmission system, information providing method, and recording medium storing information providing program

Abstract

An information providing apparatus sends an image forming instruction to an image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to form an image to generate image data and transmit the image data to the information providing apparatus, stores the image data received from the image forming apparatus in a memory area of a memory, and stores identification information that uniquely identifies the image data and information indicating the memory area to which the image data is stored in association with each other to generate management information in the memory.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An information providing apparatus, comprising:
 a communication interface to send an image forming instruction to an image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to form an image to generate image data and transmit the image data to the information providing apparatus;   a memory to store the image data received from the image forming apparatus in a memory area; and   a processor to store identification information that uniquely identifies the image data and information indicating the memory area to which the image data is stored in association with each other to generate management information in the memory, and to use the management information to specify the image data to be transmitted to a transmission terminal.