Erasing apparatus and erasing method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideaki Fukaya
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Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment, an erasing apparatus includes a paper feed tray configured to feed a sheet, a reading unit configured to read an image on the sheet, an erasing unit configured to erase the image on the sheet, a cutting apparatus configured to cut the sheet allowed to be cut, a reject box configured to accumulate the sheet which is judged to be not-reusable and a control unit configured to judge the category of the sheet based on the output of the reading unit and change the conveyance destination of the sheet according to the category of the sheet.
Claims5
An erasing apparatus, comprising:
- a paper feed tray configured to feed a sheet;
- a reading unit configured to read an image on the sheet;
- an erasing unit configured to erase the image on the sheet;
- a cutting apparatus configured to cut the sheet allowed to be cut;
- a reject box configured to accumulate the sheet which is judged to be not-reusable;
- a control unit configured to judge the category of the sheet based on the output of the reading unit and change the conveyance destination of the sheet according to the category of the sheet;
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- an operation unit configured to input and output information, wherein the control unit displays such a content that the sheet is a confidential document on the operation unit in a condition that the category of the sheet is judged to be the confidential document based on the output of the reading unit, and cuts the sheet by the cutting apparatus after the allowance of the cutting is input.
An erasing method, comprising:
- judging the category of a sheet based on the output of a reading unit reading an image on the sheet;
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- conveying the sheet to anyone of an erasing unit erasing the image on the sheet, a cutting apparatus cutting the sheet and a reject box accumulating the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.