Patent ID: 7433098

Claim:
A document processing system comprising a document transport for moving a plurality of documents and at least one computer running system software that interfaces with the document transport to provide document control, the document processing system further comprising: an image capture subsystem connected to the document transport for capturing selected image metrics and at least one image rendition from the plurality of documents as they are moved by the document transport, the image capture subsystem determining if at least one of the selected image metrics for any of the at least one image rendition does not successfully compare against preselected image quality metric threshold values, generating an image quality flag for any of the at least one image rendition if it does not successfully compare, and creating in an image quality flag file, a record entry for each imaged document having at least one flagged image rendition, each record entry including information about the at least one flagged image rendition for that imaged document, whereby image defects in the plurality of documents can be identified by examining the record entries in the image quality flag file; wherein the image capture subsystem further creates an image index file that, for each document, provides pointers to associated images and includes a global image quality flag for indicating image quality test results for the document and an image quality record index field that points to the associated record entry, if any, in the image quality flag file; and wherein each record entry in the image quality flag file further includes a cross-reference to the corresponding part of the image index file for the document corresponding to that particular record entry.