GESTURE PROCESSING WITH LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES WITH HIGH RESOLUTION PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION FOR A READING MACHINE

A portable reading machine that operates in several modes and performs image preprocessing to prior to optical character recognition. The portable reading machine receives a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene and processing the low resolution image to recognize a user-initiated gesture using a gesturing item that indicates a command from the user to the reading machine and the high resolution image to recognize text in the image of the scene, according to the command from the user to the machine.