Patent ID: 8437529

Claim:
A method of processing a stack of currency bills in a document processing system, the method comprising: receiving a stack of currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills having an associated serial number and additional identifying character information; transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, and to an output receptacle; imaging the stack of currency bills via the image scanner to produce image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image for each currency bill; extracting an associated currency bill serial number and the additional identifying character information from the image data of each currency bill; denominating each currency bill; determining whether each currency bill is a suspect bill; and upon a determination that the currency bill is a suspect bill, automatically generating a suspect note report, the act of automatically generating the report comprising populating fields in the report with information associated with the suspect bill including the extracted serial number, the extracted additional identifying character information, and the denomination of the suspect bill.