Method and apparatus for selectively scanning pages within a document stack

A system for selectively scanning pages in a document stack, comprising:

• labels to be attached to one or more of the pages within the document stack, one label being printed thereon with a machine-readable code indicating a beginning of a skip operation;
• a label sensor to sense a presence of a label on a page within the document stack;
• a scanning system to capture images from the pages of the document stack;
• a document handling system to enable pages from the document stack to pass over said label sensor and said scanning system;
• and
• processor means for preventing said scanning system from capturing the image from the page having the label indicating the beginning of the skip scanning operation attached thereto and for preventing said scanning system from capturing the image from any page following thereafter when said label sensor senses the label indicating the beginning of the skip scanning operation.

A system for selectively scanning pages in a document stack, comprising:

• labels to be attached to two or more of the pages within the document stack, one label being printed thereon with a machine-readable code indicating a beginning of a skip operation and the other label being printed thereon with a machine-readable code indicating an ending of the skip operation;
• a label sensor to sense a presence of a label on a page within the document stack;
• a scanning system to capture images from the pages of the document stack;
• a document handling system to enable pages from the document stack to pass over said label sensor and said scanning system;
• and
• processor means for preventing said scanning system from capturing the image from the page having the label indicating the beginning of the skip scanning operation attached thereto when said label sensor senses the label indicating the beginning of the skip scanning operation and for preventing said scanning system from capturing the image from any page following thereafter until said label sensor senses the label indicating the ending of the skip scanning operation.

A method for selectively scanning pages in a document stack, comprising the steps of:

• (a) attaching labels to one or more of the pages within the document stack;
• (b) moving each page of the document stack pass a label sensor and a scanning system;
• (c) determining whether a label is attached to a page;
• (d) capturing an image from the page when it is determined that no label is attached thereto;
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• (e) passing the page through the scanning station without allowing image capture when it is determined that the label is attached thereto without interrupting a scanning process of a remainder of the document stack.