Patent ID: 8665503

Claim:
An image reading device that carries out a reading operation in a stationary document read mode for reading an image of a stationary document, or in a document convey-read mode for reading an image of a document while conveying the document, the image reading device comprising: a first document table on whose top surface a document is placed in the stationary document read mode; a document load tray on which a document whose image is to be read is placed in the document convey-read mode; a first document receiving tray to which a document whose image has been read is discharged in the document convey-read mode; a linear conveyance path inclining downward from the document load tray to the first document receiving tray; a second document table which is disposed in the linear conveyance path and a top surface of which inclines downward along the linear conveyance path toward a downstream side in a document conveying direction in relation to the first document table; a first reading section that receives, in a stationary state at a position below the second document table in the document convey-read mode, light that is given off from a ray axis inclining in relation to a direction perpendicular to the second document table and is reflected at a first face of a document; a reading plate disposed in such a manner as to be parallelly opposed to the second document table across the linear conveyance path; and a second reading section that is disposed on an opposite side of the first reading section across the reading plate and reads an image on a second face of a document in the document convey-read mode, wherein: the second document table is disposed in such a manner that part of the top surface thereof intersects with a plane containing the top surface of the first document table; and the second reading section receives light that is given off from the ray axis perpendicular to the reading plate and is reflected at the second face of the document.