IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus and image forming method in which an ordinary mode for processing a general document and a special mode for processing a special document can be switched through simple operation or automatically.

SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus comprises: a reading unit for reading a document and converting the document into image data; a document class judging unit for identifying a general document and a special document based on the image data read by the reading unit; a reading processing unit in which reading processing contents are different between a general document and a special document; an image processing unit in which image processing contents are different between a general document and a special document; and a control unit which sets the reading processing unit to the special reading processing mode and the image processing unit to a special image processing mode if the document judged by the document class judging unit is a special document, or sets the reading processing unit to a general reading processing mode and the image processing unit to a general image processing mode if the document judged by the document class judging unit is a general document.

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