Patent ID: 8687248

Claim:
An image reading apparatus comprising: a document conveying mechanism configured to convey a first document in a document conveying direction; a first image reading device configured to read an image of a first surface of the first document, conveyed in the document conveying direction, in a first reading range extending in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the document conveying direction; and a second image reading device configured to read an image of a second surface of the first document, conveyed in the document conveying direction, in a second reading range extending in the main scanning direction, and wherein the document conveying mechanism is configured to convey the first document from the second image reading device to the first image reading device, and wherein the second reading range in which the second image reading device is configured to read the image of the second surface of the first document is different in the main scanning direction from the first reading range in which the first image reading device is configured to read the image of the first surface of the first document opposite to the second surface of the first document.