Patent ID: 7275692

Claim:
A document reading processing system, comprising: a magnetic reading unit configured to magnetically read printed magnetic ink characters from a slip in a transportation path and output magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) data; an optical reading unit configured to optically read an image of a slip in the transportation path and output image data; a processor configured to issue a control command instructing how to read a slip during a single pass of a slip through the transportation path; and a control unit configured to interpret the control command and control the magnetic reading unit and the optical reading unit according to the interpreted control command; wherein the processor is further configured to add to a single-pass read command, which represents one type of control command, a parameter for selectively specifying magnetic reading only, optical reading only, or both magnetic and optical reading as the type or types of reading of a slip during the single pass through the transportation path, and wherein the processor is further configured to send the single-pass read command with the parameter added thereto to the control unit, the control unit being further configured to respond to the single-pass read command with the parameter added thereto by selectively controlling the magnetic and optical reading units to execute only the type or types of reading of the slip specified by the parameter in the single-pass read command.