To provide a form reading device and a form reading method for performing reliable form processing by setting a non-contact IC tag in a form so as to enable information to be communicated with the non-contact IC tag set, storing information written in a form subjected to character recognition processing into the non-contact IC tag and performing conveyance processing or the management of the distributed form based on the stored information.

A reader/writer 24 is set at the downstream side of the form conveyance direction of a reading part 22, so that predetermined information based on character-recognized information can be written in the non-contact IC tag 40 attached to the form W. Thus, it is possible to easily acquire information for each batch and to simplify management when the form W is managed for each batch.