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Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

  • US 8,944,234 B1
  • Filed: 03/11/2013
  • Issued: 02/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of processing currency bills in a document processing system, comprising:

  • receiving a plurality of currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each currency bill bearing a respective serial number;

    transporting the plurality of currency bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle along a transport path to an output receptacle;

    imaging each of the plurality of currency bills with an image scanner positioned adjacent to the transport path to produce image data, the image data being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of currency bills;

    extracting the serial numbers from the image data for each of the currency bills;

    comparing each extracted serial number 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;

    determining that one of the plurality of currency bills is a suspect currency bill based on the act of comparing; and

    in response to the determining that one of the plurality of currency bills is a suspect currency bill, stopping the transportation of the plurality of currency bills such that the determined suspect currency bill is the last currency bill transported to the output receptacle.

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