19. A reading machine comprises: a computing device; an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing images; and a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium comprising instructions for causing the computing device to: detect common text between a pair of individual images; and combine the text from the pair of images into a file or data structure when common text is detected; determine if incomplete text phrases are present in the combined text from the pair of images at edge portions of either of the images, and when incomplete text phrases are present in the combined text from the pair of images, signal with an indication of instructions to guide a user a user to move an image input device in a direction to capture more of the text, with the instructions to guide based at least in part on the incomplete text phrases that were determined to be present.
19. A reading machine comprises: a computing device; an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing images; and a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium comprising instructions for causing the computing device to: detect common text between a pair of individual images; and combine the text from the pair of images into a file or data structure when common text is detected; determine if incomplete text phrases are present in the combined text from the pair of images at edge portions of either of the images, and when incomplete text phrases are present in the combined text from the pair of images, signal with an indication of instructions to guide a user a user to move an image input device in a direction to capture more of the text, with the instructions to guide based at least in part on the incomplete text phrases that were determined to be present. 20. The reading machine of claim 19 wherein common text between two strings is detected by producing a measure of a degree of match from any two strings, based on how many characters match in the strings.