Scanner with exception preview

A scanning system providing a exception correction capability, comprising:

• an image sensor for scanning a page of a hard-copy document;
• an input tray;
• an output tray;
• a document feeding system for picking a page of a multi-page document from the input tray, positioning the picked page to be scanned by the image sensor, and depositing the picked page in the output tray;
• a sensing system for sensing one or more attributes of the picked page to detect an exception condition;
• a user interface system including an image display and one or more user controls;
• an output interface for transferring scanned documents to an image receiving system;
• a storage memory for storing scanned documents;
• a data processing system;
• and
• a program memory communicatively connected to the data processing system and storing instructions configured to cause the data processing system to implement a method for providing an exception correction capability, wherein the method includes:
• initiating a multi-page scanning operation to scan a multi-page document in response to user activation of a user control;
• for each page of the multi-page document;
• picking the page from the input tray;
• scanning the picked page using the image sensor and storing the scanned page in the storage memory;
• sensing one or more attributes of the picked page using the sensing system;
• depositing the picked page in the output tray
• analyzing the sensed one or more attributes to detect an exception condition;
• in response to detecting an exception condition:
• pausing the multi-page scanning operation;
• displaying at least one scanned page associated with the exception condition on the image display;
• using the user interface system to provide a plurality of user-selectable corrective actions associated with the exception condition;
• performing one or more corrective operations in response to a user selecting a particular corrective action;
• and
• restarting the paused multi-page scanning operation in response to user activation of a user control;
• and
• using the output interface to transfer one or more pages of the scanned multi-page document from the storage memory to the image receiving system.