1. A method for removing a background in a scanned image, comprising: determining a histogram of each color channel for at least an initially scanned portion of the image, wherein the histogram represents a frequency distribution of pixels in the initially scanned portion across each color value for each color channel; determining a white point tracking profile based on the histogram, wherein the white point tracking profile identifies a range of color values for each channel that are statistically related to a mode color value of a corresponding color channel; when at least a portion of the pixels in the scanned image are determined to have a color profile within the white point tracking profile, modifying the at least portion of pixels to a predetermined color profile; and removing the modified pixels from the scanned image.