Patent ID: 8970932
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B41M,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A decolorizing device comprising: a first reading section configured to read a first side of the sheet; a decolorizing section configured to perform a decolorizing process on the sheet that has been read by the first reading section; a second reading section configured to read the first side of the sheet that has been processed by the decolorizing section; and a controller configured to determine if the decolorizing process is necessary or not on the first side based on first image data of the first side read by the first reading section, to read the first side of the sheet having been subjected to the decolorizing process at the decolorizing section by the second reading section if it is determined that the decolorizing process is necessary, and to avoid reading of the first side of the sheet by the second reading section if it is determined that the decolorizing process is unnecessary.