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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Nishiyama, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.