Patent ID: 8670011

Claim:
An erasing apparatus comprising: a sheet feeding section configured to feed a sheet; a reading section configured to read an image on a sheet; an erasing section configured to erase an image on a sheet; a discharge section into which a sheet is discharged; a first conveying path configured to convey a sheet fed from the sheet feeding section and to be provided with the reading section and with the discharge section downstream of the reading section in a sheet conveying direction; a second conveying path branched from the first conveying path downstream of the reading section in the sheet conveying direction and upstream of the discharge section in the sheet conveying direction, the second conveying path merging with the first conveying path upstream of the reading section in the sheet conveying direction and provided with the erasing section; a sorting member located at a branch point at which the second conveying path is branched from the first conveying path and configured to sort a sheet into either the first conveying path where the discharge section is available or the second conveying path; and a recording section located on the first conveying path and configured to record count information indicative of an erase count on a sheet.