Patent ID: 7136061

Claim:
A method of manipulating and viewing images of document items contained in a virtual stack of unbound document items displayed on a display device to allow a user to identify an exception item during exception processing of the document items, the method comprising the steps of: viewing a frontside of an image of a first document item on the display device; touching a first location on a touch-sensitive input device corresponding to at least a portion of the frontside image of the first document item on the virtual stack of unbound document items; and dragging the portion of the frontside image of the first document item from the first location on the touch-sensitive input device to a second location on the touch-sensitive input device to peel the first document item away from a second document item on top of the virtual stack of unbound document items so as to allow the user to view on the display device a backside image of the first document item and a frontside image of the second document item to determine if either the first document item or the second document item is an exception item.