Patent ID: 8891133

Claim:
An image processing device for arranging and printing images of a plurality of documents on a single recording sheet comprising: a memory part configured to memorize: image information of the plurality of documents, sizes of the plurality of documents, a size of the single recording sheet, and a number of the plurality of documents that are to be arranged on the single recording sheet; a document reading part configured to read the plurality of documents including a first document having a first size and a second document having a second size that is different from the first size, to generate image information of the plurality of read documents, and to have the memory part memorize the image information; a document size detecting part configured to detect a size of each of the plurality of documents from the image information memorized in the memory part and to have the memory part memorize the size of each of the plurality of read documents; an editing part configured to calculate a divided area of the single recording sheet by dividing the size of the single recording sheet by the number of the plurality of read documents that are to be arranged on the single recording sheet; and a designation part that is configured to designate a rotational direction of the first document of the plurality of read documents relative to the second document of the plurality of read documents based on a relative placing direction specified by a user, wherein the editing part is further configured to compare the size of each of the plurality of read documents in the memory part with the divided area of the single recording sheet, the divided area of the single recording sheet being determined by dividing the size of the single recording sheet by the number of the plurality of read documents that are to be arranged on the recording sheet, the editing part is further configured to arrange and print the image information of one of the plurality of read documents on the single recording sheet without reducing the image of the one of the plurality of documents when the size of the one of the plurality of documents is equal to or less than the size of the divided area of the single recording sheet, the number of the plurality of read documents that are to be arranged on the recording sheet is two or more, and the image information of the first document is rotated based on the designated rotational direction.