Conveyance device and reading apparatus

Abstract

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a conveyance device including a supply tray on which a plurality of documents are stacked, a supply roller configured to come into contact with an uppermost document among the plurality of documents stacked on the supply tray, a separation roller facing the supply roller and configured to separate, one by one, the plurality of documents stacked on the supply tray, and a control unit configured to acquire imaging data obtained by imaging the uppermost document stacked on the supply tray. The control unit analyzes the imaging data to thereby determine whether the uppermost document is a document bound with another document and, when determining that the uppermost document is the document bound with another document, stops the supply roller.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.