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Abstract

A document feeding device comprises an input tray, an output tray, a feeding mechanism for a feeding path, a turnover mechanism for a turnover path, ejection rollers, and an ejection mechanism. The ejection mechanism switches between a first ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while stacking the document on documents previously ejected to the output tray) and a second ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while sliding the document under the previously ejected documents) by relatively moving a nipping position of the ejection rollers and an upstream end of the output tray in the vertical direction. Also included are a pressing member which is pivotable up and down on the downstream side of the ejection rollers and which presses down the ejected documents in the first ejection mode, and a retracting mechanism which retracts the pressing member by pivoting the pressing member upward in the second ejection mode.

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