摘要 |
A machine document reader (100) includes a document receiving aperture (114) comprising a first portion (118) extending in a first plane and a second portion (120) extending in a second plane. The arrangement of the first and second portions (118), (120) is such that a document can be inserted into the document reader with a first portion of the document passing through the first portion of the document receiving aperture and a second portion of the document passing through the second portion of the document receiving aperture so that the respective first and second pages of the document are exposed for machine reading. The machine document reader includes an optical reader system (130, 132) arranged for reading data from a predetermined region of the first page regardless of whether the first portion of the document is inserted into the first portion of the document receiving aperture or the second portion of the document receiving aperture. |