Patent ID: 6408084
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for sorting documents comprising the steps of:automatically determining the physical orientation of each document, the physical orientation of each document selected from the group comprising face-forward and right-side-up, face-forward and up-side-down, face-backward and right-side-up and face-backward and up-side-down; automatically sorting each document by orientation to a document bin selected from the group comprising bin for documents which are face-forward and right-side-up, bin for documents which are face-forward and up-side-down, bin for documents which are face-backward and right-side-up and bin for documents which are face-backward and up-side-down; capturing a digital image of each document; and automatically orienting the digital image of each document from a position selected from the group comprising face-forward and right-side-up, face-forward and up-side-down, face-backward and right-side-up and face-backward and up-side-down to a preferred orientation.