Patent ID: 7173740

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a reading section which has first reading function of reading an image of a document fed and second reading function of moving along a document placed on a document table to read an image of the document, determining means for determining whether the document is read by use of the first reading function of said reading section or the second reading function of said reading section, a correcting section which corrects image data acquired by use of the first reading function of said reading section based on first correction data which is previously stored when said determining means determines that the document is read by use of the first reading function of said reading section and corrects image data acquired by use of the second reading function of said reading section based on second correction data which is previously stored when said determining means determines that the document is read by use of the second reading function of said reading section, and an image forming section which forms an image based on image data corrected by said correcting section.