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Image-based document processing system providing enhanced transaction balancing

  • US 5,349,170 A
  • Filed: 02/17/1993
  • Issued: 09/20/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an image-based transaction processing system, wherein each transaction includes debit and credit documents containing amounts, the method comprising:

  • capturing images of said documents;

    extracting document data from said documents including document amounts;

    said extracting including;

    automatically reading amounts on said documents;

    transmitting to a plurality of amount-reading workstations images of documents which can not be successfully automatically read;

    displaying document images transmitted to said amount-reading workstations for determining amounts thereon; and

    storing extracted document data in a data base;

    processing extracted amounts from said documents in said data base to identify out-of-balance transactions;

    transmitting the document images of a particular out-of-balance transaction along with corresponding extracted document data to a balancing workstation having a display;

    providing a multi-window display of said particular out-of-balance transaction on the workstation display;

    displaying in a first window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected credit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;

    displaying in a second window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected debit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;

    displaying in at least one additional window of said multi-window display amounts from documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction;

    processing extracted document data from the documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction to determine a particular document having an amount which may not be correct; and

    displaying an indication in said additional window identifying said particular document;

    the above recited operations of said amount reading workstations being overlapped with the operations of said balancing workstation.

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