Patent ID: 6810137
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G06T,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
A document processing system for accepting bank notes and financial institution documents, comprising:an input receptacle receiving bank notes and financial institution documents; an image scanner; a discrimination unit; a transport mechanism coupled to the input receptacle adapted to receive the bank notes and financial institution documents from the input receptacle and transport the financial institution documents for imaging by the image scanner and the bank notes or discriminating by the discrimination unit; an output receptacle receiving the bank notes and the financial institution documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the discrimination unit and the full image scanner; the image scanner being adapted to obtain images of the financial institution documents, optically recognize fields within the financial institution documents and to extract information from the fields; the discrimination unit being adapted to obtain the denomination of the bank notes; and an interface adapted to communicate with an accounting system, the accounting system being adapted to update financial accounts associated with the financial institution documents and the bank notes.