Image reader

An image reader method for reading an image from a document, the method comprising:

• reading a document from an image reading device;
• performing an initialization operation with an initialization operation control device, wherein the image reading device moves to a standby position where the image reading device needs to be located prior to the reading operation starts;
• storing flag data in a storage device, the flag data representing whether the initialization operation needs to be performed;
• and
• controlling the flag data with a flag data control device, the flag data representing necessity of execution of the initialization operation while the reading operation is performed by the image reading device and the flag data representing nonnecessity of the execution of the initialization operation after the reading operation by the image reading device is finished, wherein when the flag data represents the necessity of the execution of the initialization operation, the initialization operation control device performs the initialization operation;
• and when the flag data represents the nonnecessity of the execution of the initialization operation, the initialization operation control device does not perform the initialization operation.

An image reader, comprising:

• an image reading device;
• an initialization operation control device performing an initialization operation in which the image reading device moves to a standby position prior to the reading operation starts;
• storing means for storing flag data representing whether the initialization operation needs to be performed;
• and
• controlling means for controlling the flag data representing necessity of execution of the initialization operation while the reading operation is being performed by the image reading device and representing nonnecessity of the execution of the initialization operation after the reading operation is finished by the image reading device.