Appeal No. 96-3635 Application 08/209,096 machine’s accept/reject judgment of image quality. After document scanning has ended, machine-unacceptable digital images are converted to visual images. These images are then reviewed by a person to determine whether or not the machine’s image quality decision conforms to an image-quality decision made by the reviewer. Based on this review of the machine’s operation, the user may change the previously-defined image quality parameters so that in the future the machine will make image quality decisions that are more in line with the image quality decision that a person would have made. Archival storing of digital images and associated data occurs only when the machine makes a recommendation to archive. The Prior Art Dinan discloses a machine based document archival method which scans a document and forms one or more digital images and associated document data (the encoded information taught at column 5, lines 1-5). The method detects anomalous conditions that may occur during document scanning and/or subsequent processing and defines a plurality of image quality parameters in the form of gray scale values. Unit 24 of Figure 1 may monitor the distribution of gray scale values in the image data and create a histogram, which is a distribution of gray scale values which has prescribed limits. If the distribution falls outside of the limits, a malfunction signal is generated, which signal may be utilized to 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007