Recognizing financial document images

An apparatus, comprising:

• a device for capturing a real-time video stream of a user's environment, the video stream including images of one or more financial documents;
• a display operably connected to the device;
• a processor operably connected to the device and the display and configured to:
• analyze the real-time video stream to identify images that may be used to process the financial document;
• correlate the captured images of the financial document to the information needed to process the financial document;
• provide notice to the user of additional images needed to process the financial document;
• and
• a communication device, operably connected to the processor for communicating the information associated with the financial document to a financial institution to complete a transaction once sufficient images of the financial document have been captured to process the financial document.

A computer program product, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable code stored thereon, the computer executable code comprising:
• a first code portion stored in the memory and configured to capture, via a mobile device, a real-time video stream that includes images of one or more financial documents;
• a second code portion stored in the memory and configured to analyze the real-time video stream to identify images that may be used to process the financial document;
• a third code portion stored in the memory and configured to correlate the captured images of the financial document to the information needed to process the financial document;
• a fourth code portion stored in the memory and configured to provide notice to a user of additional images needed to process the financial document;
• and
• a fifth code portion configured to communicate the information associated with the financial document to a financial institution to complete a transaction once sufficient images of the financial document have been captured to process the financial document.