1. An apparatus comprising: an image sensor; a processor; an image module that receives sensor input of photographic subject matter; a subject matter module that determines whether a nature of the photographic subject matter is text; a configuration module that dynamically selects a lowest number of pixels required to recognize text in the photographic subject matter and alters one or more camera settings to capture a low-fidelity photograph having the lowest number of pixels required to recognize text in the text document, in response to the nature of the photographic subject matter being text, wherein the image sensor captures the low-fidelity photograph using the altered one or more camera settings, wherein the image module, the subject matter module, and the configuration module each comprise one or more of a hardware circuit, a programmable logic device, and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media.