Document communication system and its equipment

PURPOSE:To instruct relay multiple address communication retransmission based on a resulting report obtained from a relay station. CONSTITUTION:A resulting report generating section 22 of a relay station sends the result of communication for each of plural terminal stations as a resulting report to an instruction station. The resulting report has an arrangement of a control sheet in which a relay multiple address communication instruction is implemented by describing a mark to a prescribed position. That is, the resulting report includes description columns for telephone numbers of the relay station and a terminal station, a relay multiple address communication mark and a terminal station selection mark and a communication result or the like, When the resulting report received and printed out from the relay station is given to a reader 1 of the instruction station, an instruction information analysis section 32 discriminates the presence of described marks for processing position. The re-transmission instruction information and the selected terminal station telephone number are sent to the relay station according to the result of discrimination, and the relay station sends the picture information of the original received from the instruction station to a designated terminal station.