A multi-scanning system or image processing system includes a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors scanning a portion of the document to produce image data. Each of the sensors overlaps adjacent ones of the sensors so that the image data includes overlapped image data. The image data from the sensors...http://www.google.com/patents/US6181441?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6181441 - Scanning system and method for stitching overlapped image data by varying stitch location