1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image, comprising: an image reading portion for reading a document image; a character recognition portion for performing character recognition of a term included in the document image read by the image reading portion; an information obtaining portion for gaining access to a website for performing dictionary search through a network so as to obtain, as term information, information of a search result of the dictionary search performed with the term recognized by the character recognition portion as a keyword; and an image forming portion for forming an image with term information including the term information and the document image based on the term information obtained by the information obtaining portion.