Provided is a document reading apparatus capable of preventing erasure of print information printed with erasable ink. If the document reading apparatus accepts a document reading instruction in a state where a plurality of documents are stacked in the document stacking tray, this apparatus causes a document feeding section to successively feed the documents one by one. This apparatus further includes a temperature sensor detecting the temperature of a document feeding path along which the document is fed by the document feeding section as a monitoring temperature and a document reading control section which interrupts the document reading operation until the monitoring temperature falls below a restart temperature threshold set to be equal to or lower than the interruption temperature threshold value when the temperature threshold value is exceeded.