Image Forming Apparatus with High Security for Individual Information

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes a document reading unit, an individual information recognition unit, an individual information storage unit, an approval-use paper-sheet-personal-information identification unit, and an image forming unit. The individual information recognition unit is configured to recognize character data of individual information and appraisal data to identify individual information from image data when a paper sheet is for individual information recordation. The approval-use paper-sheet-personal-information identification unit is configured to collate image data of a signature space on the paper sheet for approval against the appraisal data stored in the individual information storage unit when a paper sheet read by the document reading unit is a paper sheet for approval to identify matching individual information. The image forming unit is configured to image the character data of identified individual information at a predetermined position on the paper sheet for approval when individual information is identified.