Method and apparatus for organizing scanned images

A system for processing scanned data comprising:

• a scanning circuit configured to detect discrete regions of a plurality of document pages in a batch job and to generate scan data representative thereof;
• a memory circuit coupled to the scanning circuit for storing the scan data in separately identifiable pages, the pages being stored initially in a first order;
• a comparison circuit coupled to the memory circuit and configured to compare the number of scanned pages of the batch job to a predefined number;
• an output circuit coupled to the comparison circuit and configured to generate a user alert when the number of scanned pages differs from the predefined number;
• and
• a collating circuit coupled to the memory circuit for reordering the stored pages into a second order different from the first order.

A system for processing scanned data comprising:

• a scanning circuit configured to detect discrete regions, of a plurality of document pages in a batch job and to generate scan data representative thereof;
• a memory circuit coupled to the scanning circuit for storing the scan data in separately identifiable pages, the pages being stored initially in a first order;
• a comparison circuit coupled to the memory circuit and configured to compare the number of scanned pages of the batch job to a predefined number;
• an output circuit coupled to the comparison circuit and configured to generate a user alert when the number of scanned pages differs from the predefined number;
• a character recognition circuit coupled to the memory circuit, the character recognition circuit being configured to review at least a portion of the stored pages and to recognize page identifying features;
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• a collating circuit coupled to the memory circuit, the collating circuit operable to reorder the stored pages into a second order different from the first order based upon the page identifying features.

A system for organizing a plurality of scanned image pages, the system comprising:

• a scanning device configured to scan a plurality of pages of a batch job and to generate data representative thereof;
• a memory circuit coupled to the scanning device for storing the data;
• a character recognition circuit coupled to the memory circuit and configured to analyze at least a portion of the data for each page to identify characters representative of a desired page sequence;
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• a collating circuit coupled to the character recognition circuit and to the memory circuit for reordering the pages based upon characters recognized by the character recognition circuit.

A method for collating scanned pages comprising the steps of:

• scanning a plurality of pages of a document in a first order to generate page data representative of each page;
• storing the page data in a memory;
• analyzing the page data to identify page designations;
• and
• reordering the pages of the document in a second order different from the first order based upon the page designations.