Patent ID: 8593707

Claim:
An image reading apparatus for reading out an image on a document so as to create image data of the document, the image reading apparatus comprising: a first light source for irradiating the document with visible light; a second light source for irradiating the document with ultraviolet light; a light receiving section for receiving (i) light reflected by the document after being emitted from the first light source and (ii) light reflected by the document after being emitted from the second light source, so as to convert the lights (i) and (ii) to single set of image data or respective sets of image data; a color correction section for performing a color correction process for the single set of image data or the respective sets of image data read out in the light receiving section; and a storage section for storing a color correction table for use in the color correction process, the color correction table associating in advance (a) image data, which correspond to image data that will be read out in the light receiving section by irradiating the document with both the visible light and the ultraviolet light at same time, with (b) color corrected image data for reproducing the image, and the color correction section being configured to perform the color correction process by reading out, from the color correction table, the color corrected image data for the image data that have been read out in the light receiving section by irradiating the document with both the visible light and the ultraviolet light at the same time.