Patent ID: 7463392
Filing Date: 2008-12-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reader comprising: a first reading device configured to read an image on one side of a document moving on a transparent glass plate; a second reading device as a reading device movable along the transparent glass plate and configured to read one of an image on another side of the document moving on the transparent glass plate and an image on another side of the document remaining stationary on the transparent glass plate; and a show-through preventing member configured to prevent show-through of the document at a first position opposed to the first reading device, wherein the show-through preventing member is provided movably, while changed in posture of the show-through preventing device, from the first position opposed to the first reading device to a second position in which reading of an image by the second reading device is not prevented by the show-through preventing member, the show-through preventing member being changed in posture from a horizontal state in which the show-through preventing member extends along the transparent glass plate to a vertical state in which the show-through preventing member extends along an inner lateral surface of the image reader by a movement from the first position to the second position.