Patent ID: 8004699

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: one of an image reading device configured to read an original document and obtain image data therefrom and an image forming device configured to form an image on a prescribed medium in accordance with image data; an operation section including an input section receiving an instruction; a display section; and a setting table including contact and non-contact type card readers, said contact and non-contact type card readers each inputting and outputting information to and from contact type and non-contact type information recordable cards, respectively; wherein said setting table includes a non-contact type card reader use section which is closer to an operator, and a contact type card reader section which is farther from the operator, said setting table has a V-letter like cross section being concave upwardly, and a folding section of the V-letter like cross section is located between the contact and non-contact type card reader use sections.