1. A computer-implemented method to filter images, comprising: capturing, by a mobile computing device, a first image of a card; analyzing, by the mobile computing device, features of the first image to determine whether the first image is likely to be usable by an optical character recognition algorithm; transmitting, by the mobile computing device, the first image to an optical character recognition system associated with the optical character recognition algorithm in response to determining that the first image is likely to be usable by an optical character recognition algorithm; and upon a determination that the first image is unlikely to be usable by an optical character recognition algorithm, rejecting, by the mobile computing device, the first image.