APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING CURRENCY BILLS AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME
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Abstract
An input receptacle receives currency bills and checks. A transport mechanism transports the bills and checks along a transport path to an output receptacle. An image scanner, adjacent the transport path, is configured to generate one or more electrical signals from which image data can be derived. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of documents. A controller is configured to determine a denomination of each of the currency bills. In response to the controller not determining a denomination of one of the currency bills, the controller flags the currency bill as a no-call document by causing at least a portion of the image data to be displayed as a visually readable image of the flagged currency bill on the display.
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87 Claims
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72. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a plurality of documents in an input receptacle of the document processing system, the plurality of documents including currency bills and checks; transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner; generating image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of documents; attempting to extract a complete set of characters from the image data for each of the documents; and failing to extract a complete set of characters for one of the documents, the document being an extraction error document; and in response to the failing to extract the complete set of characters, displaying at least a portion of a visually readable image of the extraction error document on a display unit. - View Dependent Claims (73)
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74. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a plurality of documents in an input receptacle of the document processing system, the plurality of documents including checks, each check having a wide edge and a narrow edge; transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, in a wide-edge leading manner from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, at a rate of at least about 150 documents per minute; generating image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of documents; attempting to extract a complete set of characters from the image data for each of the documents; and failing to extract a complete set of characters for one of the documents, the document being an extraction error document; and in response to the failing to extract the complete set of characters, displaying at least a portion of a visually readable image of the extraction error document on a display unit. - View Dependent Claims (75)
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76. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a plurality of documents in an input receptacle of the document processing system, the plurality of documents including currency bills and checks, each document being associated with respective identifying information; transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner; imaging each of the plurality of documents with the image scanner to produce image data, the image data associated with each individual document being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective document; for each document, attempting to extract alphanumeric characters from image data associated with a respective one of the documents; failing to extract a complete set of identifying information from one of the documents being transported, the document being an extraction error document; in response to the failing to extract the complete set of identifying information from one of the documents being transported, displaying at least a portion of a visually readable image of the extraction error document on a display unit. - View Dependent Claims (77)
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78. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a plurality of documents in an input receptacle, the plurality of documents including currency bills and checks; transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, to an output receptacle; imaging each of the plurality of documents with the image scanner to produce image data, the image data associated with each individual document being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective document; determining, via one or more processors in the document processing system, whether the image data associated with each individual document satisfies one or more flag criteria; and in response to the image data associated with one of the individual documents satisfying one of the flag criteria, displaying a visually readable image of at least a portion of the one of the individual documents on a display unit. - View Dependent Claims (79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
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86. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a plurality of currency bills in an input receptacle; transporting the plurality of currency bills along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, to an output receptacle; imaging each of the plurality of currency bills with the image scanner to produce image data, the image data associated with each individual currency bill being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective currency bill; determining in the document processing system whether the image data associated with each individual currency bill satisfies one or more flag criteria; and in response to the image data associated with one of the individual currency bills satisfying one of the flag criteria, stopping the transportation of currency bills such that the one of the individual currency bill bills is transported to the output receptacle in a predetermined location. - View Dependent Claims (87)
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