1. A digital image capture device, comprising: an image sensor for capturing a digital image; an optical system for forming an image of a scene onto the image sensor; a data processing system; a storage memory; 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 a document containing text characters, wherein the method includes: capturing a plurality of digital images of the document using the image sensor; automatically analyzing each of the captured digital images using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data for each captured digital image; and merging the extracted textual data for the captured digital images to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the captured digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document; and storing the textual information in the storage memory.