Patent ID: 7190922

Claim:
A scan copying apparatus with a frame-cropping function having a frame cropping copy mode, the scan copying apparatus comprising: a user interface, through which a user can input a set of geometric parameters corresponding to a selected scan area of an original; a zone-creating unit, electrically connected to the user interface, for receiving the set of geometric parameters and for creating a cropping frame corresponding to the set of geometric parameters; an optical scanning module for scanning the selected scan area of the original according to the cropping frame to generate a cropping scan signal; and a processor, which is electrically connected to the user interface, the zone-creating unit and the optical scanning module, for controlling operations of the user interface, the zone-creating unit and the optical scanning module, and processing the cropping scan signal into a cropping print signal, wherein the scan copying apparatus further has an index copy mode, and the scan copying apparatus further comprises a second memory for storing a reference grid signal, wherein in the index copy mode, the optical scanning module scans the original to generate an index scan signal and the processor combines the index scan signal and the reference grid signal into an index print signal.