Patent ID: 8687249

Claim:
A portable scanner adapted for scanning a document manually and automatically, comprising: a housing including a hollow upper housing and a hollow lower housing of which two ends are connected together to define a transmitting passage therebetween, a first scanning window and a second scanning window being opened in and penetrating through two different sides of the upper housing respectively, wherein the second scanning window being opened in a bottom side of the upper housing and communicated with the transmitting passage; a switching device rotatably mounted inside the upper housing; a first scanning device mounted on the switching device, the switching device together with the first scanning device being switched between a first scanning state that is the first scanning device faces the first scanning window, and a second scanning state that is the first scanning device faces the second scanning window; and a document feeder including a feeding roller unit and a drawing-out roller unit arranged at upstream and downstream sides of the second scanning window according to the direction of transmitting the document in the transmitting passage, both the feeding roller unit and the drawing-out roller unit being disposed in the upper housing and the lower housing and projecting in the transmitting passage for transmitting the document through the second scanning window along the transmitting passage, wherein when the switching device is at the first scanning state, the document is scanned by the first scanning device by virtue of hand-holding the portable scanner to make the first scanning window move through the document, when the switching device is at the second scanning state, the document is automatically transmitted by the document feeder along the transmitting passage to pass through the second scanning window and be scanned by the first scanning device.