Patent Document ID: 9233399
Application ID: 12951181
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating separations between jobs in a batch of scanned pages without using slip sheets for separating jobs of the batch, comprising: for each of a set of jobs: detecting at least one of: placement of a job container on a stack of job containers; and placement of a job removed from the job container on a jobs stack; and in response to the detecting, capturing an image of a representative page of the job, wherein for each job, the representative page is a top page of the job and the capturing comprises capturing an image of the top page of the job with a camera placed above the jobs stack; thereafter, scanning the set of jobs as a batch to generate a set of scanned pages without scanning slip sheets for separating jobs of the batch; with a processor of a computing device, comparing the captured images with scanned pages in the set of scanned pages to identify, for at least one captured image, a scanned page which matches the captured image; and generating at least one separator for separating the set of scanned pages based on a location of the matching scanned page.