Patent ID: 7408685
Filing Date: 2008-08-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus comprising: an original table on which a reflective original and a transparent original can be placed; an image reading unit capable of reading a reflective original and a transparent original that have been placed on the original table; and a controller which exercises control in such a manner that in a case where the transparent original that has been placed on the original table is to be read by the image reading unit based upon reading conditions that have been entered on a predetermined reflective original, the predetermined reflective original, which has been placed on the original table at a position thereof different from that of the transparent original, is read, and then the transparent original is read on the basis of the reading conditions, wherein the reading conditions of the transparent original include a trimming designation to designate a partial area to be read within a frame that is to be read from among a plurality of frames contained in the transparent original using a reduced-size image of the frame to be read.