Patent ID: 8654410

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a document scanner including a document bed having a document positioning surface; a scanner module slidably attached to a member connected to the document bed, wherein the scanner module includes an optical movement sensor, wherein the optical movement sensor provides means for detecting movement of the scanner module relative to the document positioning surface; and a contact image sensor incorporated in the scanner module, wherein the contact image sensor provides means for scanning an image of a document, wherein, responsive to detected movement of the scanner, the optical movement sensor activates the contact image sensor, wherein the optical movement sensor further provides means for providing the detected movement information to both of the contact image sensor incorporated in the scanner module, and a magnetic character reader incorporated in the scanner module, wherein, upon receipt of the movement information by both of the contact image sensor and the magnetic character reader, both of the contact image sensor and the magnetic character reader utilize the movement information as movement feedback in order to permit the scanner module to generate electronic images or characters of a document positioned upon the document positioning surface that are user-recognizable and void of skew or distortion during movement of the scanner module across the document bed.