Patent ID: 8290307

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image reading section for reading an image from one or a plurality of documents; an image generating section for generating a plurality of images of different scaling ratios from the image read by the image reading section; an information adding section for adding an index which identifies each image generated by the image generating section and information related to the scaling ratio of each image, to the image to be formed on the sheet; an image forming section for forming the plurality of images to which respective indexes and the information related to the scaling ratio are added by the information adding section; a display section for displaying the index of each image formed by the image forming section on the sheet; an accepting section for accepting a selection of one index from the indexes displayed on the display section; and a switching section configured to switch between a function of generating the plurality of images of the different scaling ratios from one document on one sheet and a function of generating the plurality of images of the different scaling ratios from a plurality of documents on one sheet, wherein the image forming section forms on one sheet an image identified by the index selected through the accepting section.