Patent ID: 8824021

Claim:
A method for reproducing a document using an image processing apparatus, comprising the steps of: scanning a front side and a back side of an original and accordingly producing a front side image and a back side image; determining a size of the original by a processing module of the image processing apparatus; comparing the size of the original with a page size by the processing module after the step of determining the size of the original; if the size of the original is determined smaller than one half of the page size, producing one-page image data representing the front side image and the back side image, respectively corresponding to the front side and the back side of the original, on the same side of one single page after the step of comparing; and if the size of the original is determined larger than one half of the page size, producing multi-page image data representing the front side image and the back side image, respectively corresponding to the front side and the back side of the original, on two pages after the step of comparing, wherein the steps of producing the one-page image data and producing the multi-page image data are automatically changed by the processing module in accordance with the size of the original.