| 摘要 |
An image reading apparatus comprises: a scanner portion, having a first line image sensor a carriage system carrying the first line image sensor; and an ADF unit, having a transporting pass for feeding a copy from a stacked copies and carrying the copy from a first end of a copy glass of the scanner and discharging the copy at a the second end of the scanner, the ADF unit further having an attribution detection portion, including a second line image sensor, for detecting an attribution of an image of the copy, such as a color image or monochrome image, or a multi-value image or binary image. According to the attribution, a reading condition such as a reading speed or the reading interval by the first line image sensor is changed. In the absence of a command signal indicative of the attribution, the first line image sensor is positioned at the second end and in the presence of the command signal, the first line image sensor is positioned at the first end. If a high resolution is required, a copy fed to the copy glass is scanned by the carriage system with a scanning speed and resolution determined by the request and the detection result of the attribution detection portion.
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