Patent Document ID: 20150077816
Application ID: 14447461
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A recording apparatus, comprising: a scanner portion which reads a document mounted on a document table; a recording portion which records information read by the scanner portion to a recording medium; and a control portion which controls the scanner portion, wherein, with respect to a document of which a size is greater than a size of a document reading area, a division reading mode can be executed which obtains image information of the entire document by linking image information obtained via a plurality of times of a document reading operation, wherein a first document reading operation in the division reading mode is initiated from a reading reference position side in the document reading area of the document table, and wherein the image information of the entire document is obtained by sequentially linking a predetermined image position of an ending position side of an image obtained by the first document reading operation and a predetermined image position of an initiating position side of an image obtained by the following document reading operation, in a linking direction of the image.