Image reading apparatus, control program thereof, and method for determining output range of image data read by the apparatus

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a control program for controlling an image reading apparatus comprising a reading device configured to read an image of a document including at least one sheet to obtain image data of the image, a moving mechanism configured to move at least one of the reading device and the document, an operable portion capable of being inputted a specific command, a read-controlling portion configured to conduct a reading operation in which the reading device reads the image of the document while scanning the document by controlling operations of the reading device and the moving mechanism so as to obtain each section of the image data of one sheet as one of the at least one sheet, wherein parts of the image of the one sheet respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data of the one sheet are read in a reading order, and a display device configured to display a display image based on the sections of the image data stored in the image-data storing portion, the display image corresponding to the image of the document, the control program comprising:

• an image-data storing step of storing, in a memory, the sections of the image data of the document in the reading order;
• a displaying step of displaying the display image in a manner that parts of the display image respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data are displayed in the same order as the reading order;
• a command detecting step of detecting the specific command;
• an output-range determining step of determining an output range which is a range of output image data of the document to be outputted from the image reading apparatus, the output range ranging, from the section of the image data of the document corresponding to the first part of the display image, to the section of the image data of the one sheet corresponding to the last part of the display image, the first part of the display image being a part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained first by the reading operation of the document, the last part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained last by the reading operation of the one sheet and being a part of the display image displayed last on the display device at the timing when the specific command is detected;
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• an image-data outputting step of outputting the output sections of the image data included in the output range, and not to output sections of the image data of the one sheet not included in the output range.

A method for reading an image by using an image reading apparatus comprising a reading device configured to read an image of a document including at least one sheet to obtain image data of the image, a moving mechanism configured to move at least one of the reading device and the document, an operable portion capable of being inputted a specific command, a read-controlling portion configured to conduct a reading operation in which the reading device reads the image of the document while scanning the document by controlling operations of the reading device and the moving mechanism so as to obtain each section of the image data of the one sheet as one of the at least one sheet, wherein parts of the image of the one sheet respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data of the one sheet are read in a reading order, and a display device configured to display a display image based on the sections of the image data stored in the image-data storing portion, the display image corresponding to the image of the document, the method comprising:

• storing, in a memory, the sections of the image data of the document in the reading order;
• displaying the display image in a manner that parts of the display image respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data are displayed in the same order as the reading order;
• detecting the specific command;
• determining an output range which is a range of output image data of the document to be outputted from the image reading apparatus, the output range ranging, from the section of the image data of the document corresponding to the first part of the display image, to the section of the image data of the one sheet corresponding to the last part of the display image, the first part of the display image being a part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained first by the reading operation of the document, the last part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained last by the reading operation of the one sheet and being a part of the display image displayed last on the display device at the timing when the specific command is detected;
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• outputting the output sections of the image data included in the output range, and not to output sections of the image data of the one sheet not included in the output range.