Patent ID: 7551333

Claim:
A scanner, for scanning two adjacent pages in documents bound in volume, comprising: a housing, having two scanning tables connected to each other, wherein an included angle is formed between the two scanning tables, a crest line is formed at a connection of the two scanning tables, each of the scanning tables has a window, and the two pages are placed flatly on the two scanning tables respectively; two image scanning units, movably disposed in the housing and corresponding to the two scanning tables respectively, for projecting a scanning light through each of the windows respectively so as to scan images of the two adjacent pages through each of the windows; a conveying device, disposed in the housing and located below the crest line, wherein an end of each of the two image scanning units is connected to the conveying device, and the two image scanning units are moved by the conveying device relative to the scanning tables of the housing in a direction parallel to the crest line; and two guide rails, disposed in the housing, wherein each of the two guide rails respectively disposed on two edges away from the crest line of the two scanning tables, and the other end of the two image scanning units respectively sliding on the two guide rails.