Patent ID: 8654411

Claim:
An image scanning device, comprising: an accepting section for accepting an instruction to scan a double-sided document; a scanning section for scanning a plurality of double-sided documents with respect to each page to produce image data in the case of the accepting section accepting the scanning instruction; a determining section for determining whether or not each page of the documents is solid colored based upon the image data produced by the scanning section; an eliminating section for eliminating image data in accordance with a page determined by the determining section as being solid colored from the image data produced by the scanning section; a transmitting section for transmitting, to an outside, image data other than the image data eliminated by the eliminating section among the image data produced by the scanning section; and a receiving section for receiving from the outside an instruction to scan a double-sided document, wherein the accepting section is set so as to accept the scanning instruction received by the receiving section, and the eliminating section is prohibited from eliminating image data when the accepting section accepts the scanning instruction received by the receiving section, wherein the receiving section is set so as to receive, from the outside, information indicating whether or not front-side images and back-side images based upon image data should be alternately switched and displayed outside, and the eliminating section is prohibited from eliminating image data when the information received by the receiving section indicates that the switching-display should be performed in the case of the accepting section accepting the scanning instruction received by the receiving section.