To provide a composite device capable of coping without lowering the productivity even when the work of compression and storage overflows at the time of parallelly performing the work of compressing and storing image data obtained by reading an original and the work of uploading them to another device.
At the time of parallelly performing the compression and storage work to an image memory and uploading work by an uploading means, in the case that the work of compressing and storing the image data in the image memory overflows, a control means makes a display means display the number of original returned sheets in an original read means, receives the instruction of a continuous operation from an operation part and performs control for restarting read in the original read means at the point of time that a free space is generated in the image memory.
SATO JUNJI
KITAHARA YOSHINAO
