a facsimile apparatus comprises a reading unit such as an image sensor to read an image of an original to be transmitted , a transmitter to transmit the image read by the image sensor , an extraction circuit to extract the image in an area shown by a mark written by a marker pen in the image which was read by the image sensor and is transmitted by the transmitter , a memory to store the image extracted by the extraction circuit , a detector to detect that a predetermined amount of image was stored in the memory ; and a recorder such as a printer to print the image stored in the memory in accordance with the detection of the detector . the extraction circuit detects the presence or absence of the mark in the predetermined area on the original and extracts the image on the line at which the mark was detected .