To attain facsimile transmission with a high efficiency directly and simultaneously in a short time without using a paper original by providing a white board section and a facsimile main body section and sending/receiving character and image information through the use of a telephone line.

The electronic white board equipment provided with the facsimile function is made up of a white board section 15 having a film sheet 16 driven endless and a facsimile main body section 20, and the white board section 15 and the facsimile main body 20 are connected separably. Then in the facsimile main body section 20, a scanner 21 to read contents of transmission document written on the film sheet 16 and a motor drive circuit 22 are connected to a main control section 23. Then the output of the main control section 23 is given to a telephone line via a modulation section 27 and a telephone line control section 28.