IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM, AND PRINTER DRIVER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus and an image formation system for properly combining sub documents while satisfactorily maintaining the visibility of a main document, and to provide a printer driver.

SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes: at least, a means for acquiring a plurality of document images; a margin area detecting part for analyzing one or more main document images selected among the plurality of documents and detecting one or more margin areas where nothing is written; an image extracting part for extracting one or more target images to be combined on the margin areas of the main document from one or more sub documents other than the main document; and an image combining part for combining the target images of the sub document on the margin area after processing the target image in accordance with the size of the margin area of the main document.

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