Image forming apparatus and control method thereof

An imaging apparatus and a control method therefor are provided to extract a part which a user wants to extract simply, quickly, and automatically and print the extracted part. A scan unit(110) scans original documents. A note discriminating unit(240) discriminates a note of a user included in the scanned image. A correspondence image extracting unit(250) extracts an original image of a clean state when the note of the user is removed from the scanned image. A storing unit(260) stores the extracted original image. An imaging control unit(270) controls operation in which the original image of the clean state is extracted and stored. A print engine unit(120) performs print operation according to a control signal of the imaging control unit.