Network interconnected financial document processing devices
First Claim
1. A system for processing financial institution documents comprising:
- a multitude of compact image processing units communicatively coupled together to form a network, each of the image processing units comprising;
an input receptacle for receiving financial institution documents;
an image scanner;
a discrimination unit;
a transport mechanism coupled to the input receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the input receptacle and transport the documents past the image scanner and the discrimination unit;
an output receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the transport mechanism after the documents have been transported past the image scanner and discrimination unit;
the image scanner being adapted to obtain images of the documents, the scanner further being adapted to optically recognize fields within the documents and to automatically extract information from the fields;
the discrimination unit including an authenticator adapted to automatically determine the authenticity of the documents; and
an interface adapted to automatically communicate with an outside accounting system, the outside accounting system being adapted to update financial accounts associated with the documents substantially immediately without human intervention.
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Abstract
A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the full image scanner and the discrimination unit. The full image scanner includes means for obtaining a full video image of said documents, means for obtaining a image of a selected area of said documents, and means for obtaining information contained in said selected area of said document. The discrimination unit includes means for determining the authenticity of said document. A system controller directs the flows of documents over the transport mechanism.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for processing financial institution documents comprising:
a multitude of compact image processing units communicatively coupled together to form a network, each of the image processing units comprising;
an input receptacle for receiving financial institution documents;
an image scanner;
a discrimination unit;
a transport mechanism coupled to the input receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the input receptacle and transport the documents past the image scanner and the discrimination unit;
an output receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the transport mechanism after the documents have been transported past the image scanner and discrimination unit;
the image scanner being adapted to obtain images of the documents, the scanner further being adapted to optically recognize fields within the documents and to automatically extract information from the fields;
the discrimination unit including an authenticator adapted to automatically determine the authenticity of the documents; and
an interface adapted to automatically communicate with an outside accounting system, the outside accounting system being adapted to update financial accounts associated with the documents substantially immediately without human intervention. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for processing financial institution documents comprising:
a multitude of image processing units communicatively coupled together to form a network, the units processing financial institution documents deposited by users, each of the units comprising;
an input receptacle for receiving financial institution documents;
an image scanner;
a transport mechanism coupled to the input receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the input receptacle and transport the documents past the image scanner;
an output receptacle adapted to receive the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner;
the image scanner being adapted to obtain images of the documents, the scanner further being adapted to optically recognize fields within the documents and to automatically extract information from the fields; and
an interface adapted to communicate the information contained in selected areas of the document to an outside accounting system wherein financial accounts associated with the documents are processed automatically substantially immediately. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A financial institution document processing network, comprising:
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a plurality of document imaging devices, each such device adapted to;
receive a stack of documents, image each document in the stack, determine a monetary value associated with each document, and output the document images and associated monetary values;
a financial institution accounting system operating to receive the document images and associated monetary values and update a financial account associated with the stack of documents in view of the associated monetary values; and
a data communications network interconnecting the plurality of document imaging devices to the financial institution accounting system. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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