Video capture of multi-faceted documents

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable memory containing programming instructions that, when executed, are operable to instruct the processor to:
• receive a video of a multi-faceted printed artifact, wherein the video comprises a series of image frames;
• select a set of the image frames;
• determine a frame quality for each frame in the set;
• identify a subset of the frames so that the frame quality of each frame in the subset satisfies one or more image quality criteria, and the subset comprises at least one frame for each facet of the multi-faceted printed artifact;
• and
• automatically combine the subset of frames into a single electronic file.

A method of creating an electronic document file for a multi-page printed document, the method comprising:

• by a processing device, receiving a video of a multi-page printed document, wherein the video comprises a series of image frames;
• by the processing device, selecting a set of the image frames;
• by the processing device, determining a frame quality for each frame in the set;
• by the processing device, identifying a subset of the frames so that the frame quality of each frame in the subset satisfies one or more image quality criteria, and the subset comprises at least one frame for each page of the multi-page printed document;
• and
• by the processing device, automatically combining the subset of frames into a single electronic file so that each frame of the electronic file represents a single page of the multi-page printed document.