Patent ID: 8508811

Claim:
A method of copying a two-sided card with an image forming apparatus, the method comprising: adjusting a page layout and orientation for copying a two-sided card with a user interface of the image forming apparatus so as to position each side to be copied of the two-sided card within the page; scanning a front side of the two-sided card with an image reading unit of the image forming apparatus so as to form a front side image; deskewing the front side image of the two-sided card scanned with a control unit of the image forming apparatus so as to reduce any skew from the scanning of the front side of the two-sided card that is present in the front side image because of an orientation of the front side of the two-sided card; detecting a direction of the front side image of the two-sided card scanned with the controlling unit; scanning a back side of the two-sided card with the image reading unit so as to form a back side image; deskewing the back side image of the two-sided card scanned with the controlling unit so as to reduce any skew from the scanning of the back side of the two-sided card that is present in the back side image because of an orientation of the back side of the two-sided card; detecting a direction of the back side image of the two-sided card scanned with the controlling unit; building at least one page from the front and back side images according to the adjusted layout with the controlling unit; and outputting the at least one page with an output unit of the image forming apparatus or storing the at least one page to a file in a storage unit of the image forming apparatus, wherein the detecting a direction of the front side image and the detecting a direction of the back side image detect the direction in order not to place the deskewed image up-side down on the page.