Patent ID: 7684721

Claim:
An image forming device which acquires image information of a document and forms an image on a recording sheet, comprising: an image forming device body having a first reading unit and a processing unit, wherein the first reading unit acquires image information of a document and the processing unit forms an image on a recording sheet based on the image information acquired by the first reading unit; and an image input device having a second reading unit, the second reading unit acquiring image information of a document, and the image input device being arranged in the image forming device body at a position lower than a position of the first reading unit, wherein the image input device is provided so that the image input device is capable of being pushed in the image forming device body or pulled out from the image forming device body, wherein the image forming device body is provided with a plurality of mounting mechanisms to which a plurality of sheet feeding trays, each containing a plurality of recording sheets, are detachably mounted respectively, and the image input device is detachably mounted to one of the plurality of mounting mechanisms.