Patent ID: 8944234
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06Q,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
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.