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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2005
Applicants:
Takao Kurohata, Hino, JP;
Jun Yokobori, Sagamihara, JP;
Yoshihisa Kamata, Hadano, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a document conveyance section for conveying a document of a document bundle to a document reading position; a reading section for reading the document in the document bundle to obtain image of the document; a designation section for designating to read a first document of the document bundle as a document with a tab; and a reading control section for controlling the reading section to read image for a whole document area of the first document including a tab potion, when designated by the designation section.