Patent ID: 8348262

Claim:
A document feeding device for feeding documents, comprising: a document input tray configured such that documents to be fed are placed thereon; a document output tray configured to receive the documents having been ejected; and a feeding mechanism which is provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position and is configured to feed each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and from the scanning position to the document output tray, wherein the document output tray includes: a tray part which is configured to hold the ejected documents; a projecting part which is configured to push up a part of the ejected documents on the upstream side in a feeding direction and thereby lift an upstream end of the ejected documents; and a pressing member which is configured to make contact with the ejected documents from above at a position on the downstream side of the projecting part's apex in the feeding direction, the pressing member being configured to push up the upstream end of the ejected documents in cooperation with the projecting part, wherein the document feeding device is configured to eject a document under the ejected documents by sliding the document between a bottom surface of a document ejected immediately before the document being ejected and the upper surface of the tray part.