Image reading apparatus

An image reading apparatus comprising:

• a document table having a placement surface on which a document is to be placed;
• a document cover configured to open and close the placement surface of the document table;
• a reading unit configured to read a document placed on the placement surface of the document table on an opposite side from the placement surface;
• and a control unit, wherein when a mode in which reading of a plurality of documents is continuously performed for each of the documents in an open state in which the document cover is opened with respect to the document table is selected, the control unit ends the mode based on an instruction issued by a user to end in any one of a document cover open waiting state in which the open state of the document cover is waited, a placement waiting state in which placement of a document on the document table is waited, a removal waiting state in which a document for which reading is ended is to be removed from the document table, and a post-cancellation instruction waiting state in which an instruction is waited after the reading of the document is cancelled by the user.