Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same
First Claim
1. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
- receiving a batch of a plurality of documents in an input receptacle of the document processing system, the plurality of documents including currency bills and checks, each of the plurality of documents being associated with identifying information;
transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, and to an output receptacle;
generating, for each of the plurality of documents, image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective one of the plurality of documents;
extracting the identifying information from the image data for each of the documents;
comparing the extracted identifying information with information in a database to determine if a document associated with extracted identifying information is a suspect document;
determining that a document is a suspect document based on the comparing; and
in response to the determining that a document is a suspect document, displaying at least a portion of the generated image data as a visually readable image of the suspect document on a display unit of the document processing system.
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Abstract
A batch of bills is received, transported, and imaged to produce image data. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of currency bills. Each currency bill includes a respective serial number. The serial numbers are extracted from the image data for each of the currency bills. Each extracted serial number is compared with a plurality of serial numbers in a currency bill database to determine if a currency bill associated with an extracted serial number is a suspect currency bill. One of the plurality of currency bills is determined to be a suspect currency bill based on the comparing. In response to determining the suspect currency bill, at least a portion of the produced image data is displayed as a visually readable image of the suspect currency bill on a display unit of the document processing system.
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37 Claims
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1. A method of processing documents in a document processing system, comprising:
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receiving a batch of a plurality of documents in an input receptacle of the document processing system, the plurality of documents including currency bills and checks, each of the plurality of documents being associated with identifying information; transporting the plurality of documents along a transport path, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, and to an output receptacle; generating, for each of the plurality of documents, image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective one of the plurality of documents; extracting the identifying information from the image data for each of the documents; comparing the extracted identifying information with information in a database to determine if a document associated with extracted identifying information is a suspect document; determining that a document is a suspect document based on the comparing; and in response to the determining that a document is a suspect document, displaying at least a portion of the generated image data as a visually readable image of the suspect document on a display unit of the document processing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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