AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve workability when a document is set by enhancing visibility on a document placing surface, without increasing cost.SOLUTION: An automatic document feeder 50 including a document cover 33 which is provided to be openable and closable with respect to a document placing surface 21 formed on the upper surface 5a of an apparatus body 5 and presses the document S of the document placing surface 21 includes inside an image reading device 34 which includes a light source and reads the image of one surface of the document S. An optical path 40 for guiding the light of the light source toward the document placing surface 21 from the image reading device 34 is formed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2