Patent ID: 8427720

Claim:
A document feeder comprising: a document tray on which documents are placed; a conveyance unit that separates one document from among the documents placed on the document tray, and conveys the document; a first document-width-determining unit that determines a document width of one of the documents placed on the document tray; a second document-width-determining unit that determines a document width of the document conveyed by the conveyance unit; a first document-length-determining unit that determines a document length of one of the documents placed on the document tray; a second document-length-determining unit that determines a document length of the document conveyed by the conveyance unit; a display unit that displays an operation guide to a user; a controller that if an inconsistency occurs between the document width determined by the first document-width-determining unit and the document width determined by the second document-width-determining unit, causes the display unit to display an operation guide including first content, and if an inconsistency occurs between the document length determined by the first document-length-determining unit and the document length determined by the second document-length-determining unit, causes the display unit to display an operation guide including second content that is different from the first content, and a positioning member that controls a position in a document width direction of the documents placed on the document tray, wherein the controller, if an inconsistency occurs between the document width determined by the first document-width-determining unit and the document width determined by the second document-width-determining unit, causes the display unit to display an operation guide that instructs a user to adjust a position of the positioning member to the document width of the document that has been determined by the first document-width-determining unit; wherein the controller, if an inconsistency occurs between the document length determined by the first document-length-determining unit and the document length determined by the second document-length-determining unit, causes the display unit to display an operation guide that instructs a user to remove an object other than documents, placed on the document tray.