Document scanning system with true color indicator

A document scanning system, comprising:

• a base element comprising a document placement deck and a polychromatic color chart, wherein the polychromatic color chart comprises a true color indicator element;
• a neck element, positioned at a fixed distance from the document placement deck, comprising a head end and a base end and coupled to the base element at the base end;
• a doublet of lighting arms, positioned at a fixed distance from the document placement deck, comprising a first lighting arm and a second lighting arm, wherein:
• the first lighting arm and the second lighting arm are coupled to at least one of the base element and the neck element and are positioned above the base element,
• the first lighting arm comprises at least a first lighting element coupled to the first lighting arm and the second lighting arm comprises at least a second lighting element coupled to the second lighting arm;
• a docking head coupled to the head end of the neck element and comprising an image capture opening and a docking cradle;
• and
• an image capture device positioned in the docking cradle and having a user interface face of the image capture device directed away from the document placement deck and an image capture lens directed toward the document placement deck through the image capture opening to capture a scanned image.