Patent ID: 8958626
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of processing a stack of documents including currency bills and checks in a document processing system having a vault for receiving and securely storing the currency bills, the method comprising: receiving a stack of documents including currency bills and checks in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills having a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers; transporting the received documents one at a time along a transport path from the input receptacle past an image scanner, the received checks being further transported to an output receptacle externally accessible by an operator, the received currency bills being further transported to the vault for secure storage; imaging each of the documents via the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill and check can be reproduced; determining that one of the currency bills is a suspect bill; transporting the suspect bill to a suspect receptacle of the vault; transporting the remaining currency bills to one or more non-suspect receptacles in the vault; attempting to extract, from the image data associated with the suspect bill, the set of secondary identifiers of the suspect bill, the set of secondary identifiers containing one or more secondary identifiers, each of the one or more secondary identifiers having a respective integer number of characters; failing to extract all of the respective integer number of characters of one or more of the secondary identifiers contained in the set of secondary identifiers of the suspect bill; and in response to the determination that a currency bill is a suspect bill and in response to failing to extract all of the respective integer number of characters of the one or more of the secondary identifiers contained in the set of secondary identifiers of the suspect bill, for a secondary identifier which failed to be completely extracted, populating a corresponding secondary identifier field in a suspect report with a corresponding secondary identifier snippet image.