Document reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

Abstract

The amount of time for scanning a document that includes plural pages is shortened and information leakage is prevented. A file-storage apparatus () stores image data of a document that is scanned before as an image file for which access authority is set. A document-feeding unit () feeds a document one page at a time from the starting page. A document-reading unit () reads that document that is fed by the document-feeding unit (), and converts the document to image data. A file-search unit () that, when a specified number of pages from the start of a document is read by the document-reading unit () according to an instruction from a user, searches, based on respective image data of the specified number of pages at the start that are read and access authority, for an image file from the file-storage apparatus () that is accessible by the user and that corresponds to the document as a corresponding image file. A liquid-crystal-display unit of an operation unit () as a notification unit notifies the user of a corresponding image file that is found by the file-search unit ().