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Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2002
Applicants:

Derrill L. Sturgeon, Spring, TX (US);

John C. Barker, Houston, TX (US);

Donald Michael Brown, Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Derrill L. Sturgeon, Spring, TX (US);

John C. Barker, Houston, TX (US);

Donald Michael Brown, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system is provided for scanning batch-type documents containing indicia on either a single side or on two sides of each document sheet. Misfeeds through a scanning device are identified by comparison of an anticipated number of pages with an actual number of scanned pages. Similar misfeeds may be identified by comparison of first and second series of pages in two-sided documents. Automatic collating of scanned pages is then performed where desired. The automatic collating may be based upon simple interleaving of pages, or upon recognition of page identifiers, such as page numbers in common or anticipated regions of the page. The scanning, analysis and collating operations may be followed by other processing steps, including transmission of facsimiles, printing, copying, and so forth.


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