Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same
First Claim
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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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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1. A method of processing currency bills in a document processing system, comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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