Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, and Recording Medium That Facilitate Management of Blank Sheets for Preventing Leakage of Confidential Information

An image forming method, comprising:

• creating an image of an image-log from image attribute information and image data of a read document;
• setting whether to use a skip scan function of a blank sheet page of a document;
• setting whether to register a blank sheet page image of the document;
• and
• setting whether to output an image-log of the blank sheet page images.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an image forming program, the image forming program causing a computer to function as:

• an image-log creation unit that creates an image of an image-log from image attribute information and image data of a read document;
• a document blank sheet page skip scan function setting unit that sets whether to use a skip scan function of a blank sheet page of a document;
• a blank sheet page image registration setting unit that sets whether to register a blank sheet page image of the document;
• and
• a blank sheet page image image-log output setting unit that sets whether to output an image-log of the blank sheet page images.