Patent ID: 7345784
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image reading section for reading a plurality of document images of a bundle of documents having a plurality of sheets page by page, the bundle of documents being set on a reading position and the document images having a same image direction; a designating section for designating a document setting direction for the bundle of documents which is set on the reading position and in which the document images have the same image direction; a storing section for storing the document images read by the image reading section; an image forming section for storing image data of each sheet of the bundle of documents in the storing section so as to correlate with the designated document setting direction when the document images of the bundle of documents are read by the image reading section, recognizing a rotation angle of the image data for each sheet for directing the image direction to a reference direction which is previously set based on the document setting direction of each sheet stored in the storing section after the bundle of documents are read, and executing an image processing operation in which the image data is rotated for each sheet by the recognized rotation angle; and an output section for outputting the image data for which the image processing operation is executed.