Patent ID: 8810848

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image data inputting section adapted to input image data representing an original image, therefrom; a detecting section adapted to detect attributes of each of pages included in the original image represented by the image data inputted from the image data inputting section; and a control section that selects a set of consecutive pages, attributes of each of which, detected by the detecting section, are suitable for implementing a predetermined image processing to print plural pages within a single paper sheet, and then, applies the predetermined image processing to the consecutive pages; wherein, when selecting plural sets of consecutive pages, which are suitable for implementing the predetermined image processing, the control section further selects a desired number of sets of consecutive pages in order of decreasing suitability for applying the image processing to each of the plural sets of consecutive pages, therefrom; and wherein, in case of determining that it is impossible to obtain the desired number of sets from the plural sets of consecutive pages when selecting them in order of decreasing suitability thereof, the control section selects the desired number of sets of consecutive pages by giving a priority to an obtainable number of sets of consecutive pages, rather than the order of decreasing suitability.