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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Naoto Arakawa, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/508 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/508 ;
Abstract
A plurality of original documents which are fed in sequence by a document feeder are prescanned. The prescanned image is stored, and a plurality of original document images are previewed on the basis of the stored image data. An original document image which should be subjected to image processing is selected from the plurality of previewed original document images, and the image of the original document selected from among the plurality of original documents which are fed in sequence by the document feeder is finally scanned.