Patent ID: 8593679

Claim:
An apparatus configured to scan a document, comprising: a scanning section having a scanning area and configured to scan the document in the scanning area, wherein the scanning area is divided into a plurality of divided scanning areas along a first direction and along a second direction intersecting the first direction; a control device configured to function as: a position information capturing section configured to capture position information indicating a position of the document on the scanning area when the document is scanned by the scanning section, and a processing section configured to perform a plurality of processes with respect to image data resulting from the scanning of the document by the scanning section, wherein the processing section is configured to perform one or more of the plurality of processes based on the position information captured by the position information capturing section, wherein the processes are divided into a plurality of categories; and a storage section storing one or more relationships between the divided scanning areas and the processes configured to be performed by the processing section, wherein adjacent divided scanning areas in the first direction are associated with one or more processes belonging to a first category of the categories, and adjacent divided scanning areas in the second direction are associated with one or more processes belonging to a second category different from the first category.