Patent ID: 8730540

Claim:
A sheet transport apparatus that transports a sheet to a reading section for reading the sheet, comprising: a reading front roller pair, disposed in a curved upstream vicinity of the reading section, coming into contact with a front end of the sheet to form a register loop in the sheet; a first transport path extending while being curved toward the reading front roller pair; a second transport path extending while being curved toward the reading front roller pair and joining the first transport path a predetermined position on an upstream side of the reading front roller pair; a first register space in which a register loop is formed in a sheet guided along the first transport path; and a second register space in which a register loop is formed in a sheet guided along the second transport path, wherein the first register space is provided on the upstream side of the predetermined position in which the first transport path joins the second transport path, and the second register space is provided between the predetermined position and the reading front roller pair on a downstream side of the predetermined position.