Patent ID: 8107135

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a workpiece bed having a workpiece positioning surface; a scanning module slidably-coupled to the workpiece bed by a support assembly to permit movement of the scanning module across the workpiece positioning surface, wherein the scanning module includes at least one workpiece information obtaining module that obtains information pertaining to a workpiece disposed upon the workpiece positioning surface, wherein the workpiece is composed of a financial document, wherein the at least one workpiece information obtaining module is composed of a contact image sensor module that generates an image of the financial document, and a magnetic ink character recognition module that generates a signal by magnetically reading a plurality of characters printed upon the financial document in magnetic ink; and a linear displacement mechanism connected to the scanning module by way of the support assembly, wherein the linear displacement mechanism drives sliding movement of the scanning module relative the workpiece positioning surface at a driven speed within a speed range, wherein the speed range is bound by an upper speed limit and a lower speed limit, wherein the driven speed being: a) higher than the upper speed limit of the speed range results in: an unusable image generated by the contact image sensor, b) lower than the lower speed limit of the speed range results in: an unusable signal generated by the magnetic ink character recognition module, and c) within the speed range results in both of: a usable image generated by the contact image sensor, and a usable signal generated by the magnetic ink character recognition module.