Image forming apparatus to correct misaligned scanned document and method of controlling the same

#This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2007-70520, filed on Jul. 13, 2007 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present general inventive concept relates to an image forming apparatus capable of aligning documents in a predetermined direction and a method of controlling the same.

#These and/or other aspects and utilities of the general inventive concept will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image forming apparatus according to the present general inventive concept;

#FIG. 2A is a view illustrating an embodiment where correctly arranged documents, and incorrectly arranged documents each of which has a head portion and a tail portion being reversed, are mixed together;

#Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present general inventive concept, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below to explain the present general inventive concept by referring to the figures.

#Hereinafter, an image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same according to an embodiment of the present general inventive concept will be described.

#As illustrated in FIG. 1, the image forming apparatus according to the present general inventive concept includes a scanning unit 100, a scan buffer 200, an image processing unit 300, a document direction determining unit 400, a printer 500 and a computer 600 which may be a PC.