To select answers being the objects of correction and summing-up in accordance with an arbitrary condition, to reduce artificial work and to reduce artificial errors by summing up data in received picture information fitted to a stored condition and/or comparing it with other data.

An image forming device body 1, an automatic original feeding device 100, a three bin sorter 200, a paper feeding unit 300 and an operation part are provided. The facsimile equipment has a condition input means (operation part and the like), a condition storage means (operation part controller and the like) and a summing-up/comparison means (summing-up/comparison device). The condition input means inputs the condition of received picture information being the object of summing-up and/or comparison with other data. The condition storage means stores/holds the condition inputted from the condition input means. The summing-up/comparison means sums up data in received picture information fitted to the condition stored in the condition storage means and/or compares it with other data.