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 using a document processing system, the method comprising the acts of:
- receiving currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills including a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers;
transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles;
imaging each of the currency bills using the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced;
attempting to determine the denomination of a first one of the currency bills;
failing to determine the denomination of the first currency bill;
in response to failing to determine the denomination of the first currency bill, populating a denomination field in an electronic record with a denomination snippet image; and
storing the electronic record in a memory device.
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Abstract
Currency bills are transported past an image scanner to one or more output receptacles. Each of the bills is imaged to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each bill can be reproduced. The serial number, denomination, and/or secondary identifiers of a bill is attempted to be extracted and/or determined from the image data associated with the bill. The serial number of the bill has an integer number, X, of characters. One or more of the X characters of the serial number of the currency bill is not extracted with a predetermined confidence. In response to failing to extract all of the X characters of the serial number of the bill with the predetermined confidence, a serial number field in an electronic record associated with the bill is populated with a serial number snippet image. The electronic record is stored in a non-transitory memory.
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4 Claims
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1. A method of processing currency bills using a document processing system, the method comprising the acts of:
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receiving currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills including a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers; transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles; imaging each of the currency bills using the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced; attempting to determine the denomination of a first one of the currency bills; failing to determine the denomination of the first currency bill; in response to failing to determine the denomination of the first currency bill, populating a denomination field in an electronic record with a denomination snippet image; and storing the electronic record in a memory device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method of processing a stack of currency bills using a document processing system, the method comprising the acts of:
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receiving a stack of currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills having at least one secondary identifier; transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles; imaging each of the currency bills via the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced; attempting to extract, from the image data associated with a first one of the currency bills, the at least one secondary identifier of the first currency bill, the at least one secondary identifier having an integer number, X, of characters; failing to extract all of the X characters of the at least one secondary identifier of the first currency bill; in response to failing to extract all of the X characters of the at least one secondary identifier of the first currency bill, populating a secondary identifier field in an electronic record with a secondary identifier snippet image.
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