Patent ID: 6654486
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G06T,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
A document evaluation device for receiving a stack of documents and rapidly evaluating all the documents in the stack, the device comprising:an input receptacle for receiving a stack of documents to be evaluated, genuine ones of the documents each having one of a plurality of images thereon, the plurality of images defining a plurality of document types; a single output receptacle for receiving the documents after the documents have been evaluated; an image scanner for evaluating the documents, the image scanner including a detector for obtaining an image of each document; a transport mechanism for transporting the documents, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the output receptacle along a transport path and past the image scanner at a rate in excess of 800 documents per minute, the image scanner being capable of distinguishing among the plurality of document types by processing each document image, the image scanner counting and determining the document type of the documents; and means for flagging a document when the type of the document is not determined by the image scanner.