Mobile document capture assistance using augmented reality

A device for aligning an image of a printed substrate using a mobile device, the device comprising:

• a processor;
• an image capturing device operably connected to processor;
• a display operably connected to the processor;
• and
• a computer readable medium operably connected to the processor, the computer readable medium containing a set of instructions configured to instruct the device to perform the following:
• receive, by the image capturing device, an image stream of a printed substrate,
• determine, by the processor, a location and a geometry of the printed substrate from the image stream,
• display the image stream on the display,
• overlay, by the processor, at least a first visual marker onto the printed substrate as displayed in the image stream using the location and geometry,
• determine, by the processing device, an acceptable alignment tolerance based on at least one of the following:
• a quality of the image capturing device or a capability of available post image capture processing software;
• determine, by the processing device, if the mobile device and the printed substrate are within the acceptable alignment tolerance, and
• if the mobile device and the printed substrate are not within the acceptable alignment tolerance instruct, by the processor, a user of the mobile device to move the mobile device to align the mobile device and the printed substrate.