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A feeder roller apparatus (10) for high speed image scanning equipment, which improves feeding of documents, and in particular short documents (90,100), sequentially fed from a stack. The feeder apparatus (10) comprises a PIC roller (20) and an infeed roller (30) which are selectively, independently driven via a dual drive shaft (35), composed of an inner drive shaft (50) and an outer drive shaft (40), driven together or selectively, independently by a main motor (70). An electromechanical clutch (60), when energized is used to drive the PIC roller (20). A sensor (80) is provided downstream of the rollers (20,30) to recognize when a document is being fed. Initially, the clutch (60) is energized, and both rollers (20,30) are driven. When the first sheet (90) reaches the sensor (80), the clutch (60) is de-energized, cutting off the drive to the PIC roller (20). The main motor (70) continues driving only the infeed roller (30) until the first sheet (90) is fed. <IMAGE>
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