Patent ID: 8355186

Claim:
A system for scanning a document, the system comprising: a) an image capture device configured to record a sequence of images of at least one page of the document as a user passes the at least one page in front of the image capture device relatively; and b) an image processor embodied on a computer with a processor and a memory that receives the recorded sequence of images and detects a sub-sequence of images for each page of the document, wherein the image processor detects the sub-sequence of images by: identifying a background pixel value, determining, for each image in the recorded sequence of images, a background pixel value number, which is a number of pixels having a pixel value equal to the background pixel value and selecting, as the sub-sequence of images, one or more images wherein the selected one or more images have the background pixel value number that is less than or equal to a threshold number of pixels having a pixel value equal to the background pixel value, and wherein the image processor selects a preferable image of each page from the sub-sequence of images to create a digital copy of the document.