1. A method of operation for an automated machine-readable symbol reader system, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of images of an exception object in at least one processor-readable medium, the exception object having not been successfully identified by a machine-readable symbol reader of the machine-readable symbol reader system; extracting, by at least one processor, one or more visual features from each of the plurality of received images; accessing a database of visual model data associated with a plurality of known objects; comparing, by the at least one processor, the extracted one or more visual features of each of the plurality of images with the visual model data associated with the plurality of known objects; determining, by the at least one processor, a descriptive measure for each of the plurality of images based on the comparison of the extracted one or more visual features with the visual model data; and sequentially displaying on a display device two or more of the plurality of images in an order dependent on the determined descriptive measures.