Patent ID: 8237998
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for feeding and processing documents comprising: a document transport system adapted to transport documents to document processing stations; a fastening device detecting station connected to said transport system and adapted to detect a fastening device securing together pages of a document; a fastening device removing station connected to said transport system, said fastening device removing station adapted to remove a fastening device securing together pages of a document; a scanning station connected to said transport system, said scanning station adapted to scan the pages of a document; a page flipping station connected to said transport system, said page flipping station adapted to flip pages of a document having a fastening device securing together pages of a document such that each document page is positioned to be scanned at said scanning station; and a systems controller interactively connected to and controlling the operation of said document transport system, said fastening device detecting station, said fastening device removing station, said scanning station and said page flipping station, said systems controller controlling the operation of said transport system and said stations based on information provided to said systems controller by said fastening device detecting station for a document to be scanned at said scanning station, to cause such document to be scanned to be processed by only one of said fastening device removing station to remove a fastening device securing together pages of a document before scanning of said document and said page flipping station during scanning of said document to be scanned, based upon a determined type of fastening device determined by the fastening device detecting station.