Patent ID: 7860446

Claim:
An image reading device comprising: a document stacking unit stacking a document; a document feeding unit picking up, one sheet at a time, the document stacked on the document stacking unit; a curved transporting path through which the document picked up by the document feeding unit is transported; an image reading unit reading an image from the document; a document table for stacking a stationary document thereon when the stationary document is read; a transporting roller provided at an exit of the curved transporting path; a registration roller for adjusting a position of a front end of the document being transported, and sending the document to the image reading unit; and a correction region, provided in a whole region between the transporting roller and the registration roller, where correction of the document is performed to adjust a transported state of the document, a majority part of the correction region extending in parallel to the document table, and the registration roller performing registration correction on the document, when a front end of the document, which was transported by the transporting roller from the exit of the curved transporting path to the correction region, reaches the registration roller.