Patent ID: 8929640
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of generating electronic records using a document processing system, the method comprising the acts of: receiving a plurality of currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills including a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers; transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles; imaging each of the currency bills using the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced; attempting to extract, from the image data associated with each of the currency bills, the serial number of each currency bill, the serial number of each currency bill having an integer number of characters; failing to extract all of the characters of the serial number of a currency bill with a predetermined confidence; and for each currency bill for which one or more of the characters of the corresponding serial number failed to be extracted with the predetermined confidence, generating an electronic record including a serial number field populated with a corresponding serial number snippet image.