Categorizer assisted capture of customer documents using a mobile device

A system for controlling document image capture comprising:

• an image representation generator which receives a flow of frames of a same document captured with an image capture device and generates an image representation for each of a plurality of frames within the flow of frames;
• a categorizer for categorizing image frames with a categorization model, for each of the plurality of frames, the categorizer assigning a confidence for at least one category to the frame based on the respective image representation and the model, the categorizer assigning a category to the document when a threshold confidence for one of the at least one category is assigned;
• a capture control component for configuring the image capture device, the capture control component triggering an automatic capture of an image of the document with the image capture device based on the assigned category;
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• a processor which implements the image representation generator, categorizer, and capture control component.

A method comprising:

• configuring an image capture device of a mobile device, based on parameters of a categorization model;
• receiving a flow of frames of a same document captured with the configured image capture device;
• with a representation generator of the mobile device, generating an image representation for each of a plurality of frames within the flow of frames;
• with a categorizer of the mobile device, for each of the plurality of frames, assigning a confidence for at least one category to the frame based on the image representation;
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• assigning a category to the document when a threshold confidence for one of the at least one categories is assigned to a plurality of frames;
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• triggering automatic capture of an image of the document based on the assigned category,
• wherein at least one of the configuring of the image capture device, generating of the image representation, assigning a confidence, and assigning a category is performed by a processor.