PURPOSE: To improve the convenience of multi-address communication without using any special terminal device, by producing a correspondence address with each address written on a document within a network when the document to which only addresses are written and the facsimile signal of a correspondence document are supplied to a terminal.

CONSTITUTION: For addressing, a character part (address) written to the head of an address document 17 is separated from an address document storing part 9 within a picture information storing memory 7 via a system processing part 12 and a character separation processing part 13 and then written to a buffer memory part 10. The part 12 writes the separated character part to a prescribed area within a storing part 8 for correspondence document after converting the character part into a prescribed size directly or via an enlargement/reduction converting part 11 in response to the size of the separated character part. Then the part 12 reads all picture information out of the part 8 and converts them into facsimile signals through picture information coding/ decoding part 14 to sent them to a circuit interface 5. The above-mentioned processing is repeated to produce the same number of correspondences as the addresses written on a document to which only addresses are written. Then the picture information on these correspondences are converted into facsimile signals and transmitted.