Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for indicating a desired original document orientation for image capture devices

Abstract

Because an original document is often incorrectly loaded into an image capture device, the resulting captured image is often upside down, rotated 90°, or cut off. This occurs even though image capture devices have markings that indicate how the original documents are to be put into the scanner, markings that are often ignored when the original documents are loaded into the image capture device. Input orientation systems, methods and graphical user interfaces provide graphical document orientation indicators, or “input document mimics”, that provides visual indications to the user of the orientation of the original document to be captured and of the image on the original document, that will result in the desired orientation of the captured image being obtained. Based on various selected image capture parameters, the input orientation systems, methods and graphical user interfaces display one or more visual cues to the user that indicate the orientation of the original document and of the image that will allow the image capture device to capture an image of the original document that corresponds to the selected image capture parameters. An image orientation portion of an input orientation graphical user interface allows the user to specify the orientation of the original document to be used when capturing an image of the original documents. The input orientation systems, methods and graphical user interfaces aid the user in selecting the proper image capture parameters that should be used with the selected orientation of the original document.