1. A system for extracting textual information from a document containing text characters, comprising: a network interface for communicating with one or more remote systems over a network; a data processing system; and a program memory communicatively connected to the data processing system and storing instructions configured to cause the data processing system to implement a method for extracting textual information from images of a document containing text characters, wherein the method includes: receiving a plurality of digital images of the document over the network, the plurality of digital images being captured using a digital image capture device; automatically analyzing each of the received digital images using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data for each captured digital image; merging the extracted textual data for the received digital images to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the received digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document; and storing the textual information for the document in a processor-accessible memory.