1. A recording apparatus, comprising: a scanner portion which reads a document mounted on a document table; a recording portion which records information read by the scanner portion to a recording medium; a gap positioned to allow the document to pass through the gap to an outer side of the scanner portion; and a control portion which controls the scanner portion, wherein, with respect to a document having a size is greater than a size of a document reading area, the control portion executes a division reading mode which obtains image information of the entire document by linking image information obtained by performing a document reading operation a plurality of times, wherein a first document reading operation in the division reading mode is initiated from a reading reference position side in the document reading area of the document table, and wherein the image information of the entire document is obtained by sequentially linking a predetermined image position of an ending position side of an image obtained by the first document reading operation and a predetermined image position of an initiating position side of an image obtained by the following document reading operation, in a linking direction of the image.