1. A system for optically recognizing, interpreting, and digitizing human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls, comprising: an image acquisition sensor operable to capture images of multiple instruments, annunciators, and controls; and a logic processing unit operable to decode the images captured by the image acquisition sensor and interpret the decoded images to determine a state of the multiple instruments, annunciators, and controls; wherein the human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls are objects in an aircraft cockpit; wherein the system detects when at least one of the objects is occluded from the images captured by the image acquisition sensor; wherein the system groups the objects into an occluded group of objects and a non-occluded group of objects; and wherein the system continues to determine the state of the non-occluded group of objects while the at least one of the multiple instruments, annunciators, and controls is occluded.