Image reading apparatus and document feeding method in image reading apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhiro Suzuki
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Abstract
The image reading apparatus according to the present invention includes a reading device which reads the images of documents fed into an image reading area, a first document feeding device which feeds first documents into the first image reading area of the reading device, and a document feeding unit which is detachably mounted on the first document feeding device and feeds second documents into the second image reading area of the reading device.
Claims20
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- reading means for reading images of documents fed into an image reading area;
- first document feeding means for feeding first documents into a first image reading area of said reading means;
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- second document feeding means for being detachably mounted on said first document feeding means and feeding second documents into a second image reading area of said reading means.
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading device that reads images of documents fed into a reading area;
- a first document feeding device that feeds first documents into a first image reading area of said reading device;
- and
- a document feeding unit detachably mounted on said first document feeding device to feed second documents into a second image reading area of said reading device.
A method for feeding documents in an image reading apparatus, the method comprising:
- feeding first documents from a first side to a first image reading area of a reading device;
- and
- feeding second documents from a side opposite to said first side of said reading device to a second image reading area of said reading device, wherein said second image reading area is different from said first image reading area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.