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US 5,848,325 AGranted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKeiichi Matsumura
Life of this patent
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including plural paper sheet feeding trays and an operating panel to input information for setting of copying operations. An image memory and a reading and recording portion scan character(s) in a predetermined area of documents and store the character(s) in the image memory. Further, a sorting portion sorts the scanned documents based on the character(s), and an output portion outputs copied document based on the stored characters.
Claims24
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- scanning means for scanning documents to be copied;
- storing means for storing image data of the scanned documents to be copied and for storing classification marks on the scanned documents to be copied;
- sorting means for outputting from the storing means the stored image data of the scanned documents to be copied in an order based on the stored classification marks for sorting output copies of the scanned documents to be copied based on the stored classification marks.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a scanner scanning documents to be copied;
- a memory storing image data of the scanned documents to be copied and storing classification marks on the scanned documents to be copied;
- a sorter outputting from the storing means the stored image data of the scanned documents to be copied in an order based on the stored classification marks for sorting output copies of the scanned documents to be copied based on the stored classification marks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.