An image forming apparatus comprising: a document conveyance portion that conveys a placed document toward a read-in position; an image reading portion that performs, when a document is placed in the document conveyance portion, feed reading-in in which the document as conveyed by the document conveyance portion is read, while performing, when no document is placed in the document conveyance portion, table reading-in in which a document placed on a table is read, and generates image data of the document; a job execution portion that, based on the image data obtained through the reading-in of the document by the image reading portion, executes a job; an operation panel that accepts setting of a destination in a case of performing a transmission job and that accepts setting for using, as a particular transmission method to which a continuous read-in mode is applied automatically, any one or plural ones of a plurality of types of transmission methods; and a control portion that controls the image reading portion and the job execution portion so that, in the continuous read-in mode, the image reading portion continuously performs reading-in of a document as placed until an input to end reading-in is inputted to the operation panel, and after the input to end reading-in has been inputted to the operation panel, based on image data obtained through the reading-in of the document, the job execution portion performs a job, and so that when an automatic continuous read-in condition is satisfied, the image reading portion and the job execution portion automatically operate in the continuous read-in mode, the control portion handling the any one or plural ones of a plurality of types of transmission methods set on the operation panel as the particular transmission method, the control portion checking whether or not the transmission job is to be performed by the particular transmission method based on the destination set on the operation panel, wherein the automatic continuous read-in condition is that the table reading-in has been started in a state where the destination corresponding to the predetermined transmission method is set. a document conveyance portion that conveys a placed document toward a read-in position; an image reading portion that performs, when a document is placed in the document conveyance portion, feed reading-in in which the document as conveyed by the document conveyance portion is read, while performing, when no document is placed in the document conveyance portion, table reading-in in which a document placed on a table is read, and generates image data of the document; a job execution portion that, based on the image data obtained through the reading-in of the document by the image reading portion, executes a job; an operation panel that accepts setting of a destination in a case of performing a transmission job and that accepts setting for using, as a particular transmission method to which a continuous read-in mode is applied automatically, any one or plural ones of a plurality of types of transmission methods; and a control portion that controls the image reading portion and the job execution portion so that, in the continuous read-in mode, the image reading portion continuously performs reading-in of a document as placed until an input to end reading-in is inputted to the operation panel, and after the input to end reading-in has been inputted to the operation panel, based on image data obtained through the reading-in of the document, the job execution portion performs a job, and so that when an automatic continuous read-in condition is satisfied, the image reading portion and the job execution portion automatically operate in the continuous read-in mode, the control portion handling the any one or plural ones of a plurality of types of transmission methods set on the operation panel as the particular transmission method, the control portion checking whether or not the transmission job is to be performed by the particular transmission method based on the destination set on the operation panel, wherein the automatic continuous read-in condition is that the table reading-in has been started in a state where the destination corresponding to the predetermined transmission method is set.