Patent ID: 7167580
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: G06K,G07D

Abstract:
1. An image quality assurance method for identifying image defects in a plurality of imaged documents, each imaged document including at least one image rendition, the method comprising the steps of: analyzing each of the at least one image rendition of each imaged document in an image quality metric generation process to provide selected image metrics; comparing the selected image metrics for each of the at least one image rendition of each imaged document against preselected image quality metric threshold values; generating an image quality flag for any of the at least one image rendition of the plurality of imaged documents if at least one of the selected image metrics for that image rendition does not successfully compare against the preselected image quality metric threshold values; and, creating a record entry in an image quality flag file for each of the plurality of imaged documents having at least one flagged image rendition, the record entry including information about the selected image metrics of the at least one flagged image rendition for that imaged document, wherein the image defects in a plurality of imaged documents can be identified by examining the record entries in the image quality flag file.