Patent ID: 8351677

Claim:
A processor-implemented method for processing a check deposit, comprising: receiving, at a financial institution, a customer request relating to remote deposit of a check; transmitting, in response to the customer request, a deposit processing component from a server to a customer controlled device communicatively coupled to a general purpose image capture device; receiving at said financial institution a check image from the deposit processing component running on the customer controlled device, the check image captured by the image capture device, and where said check image comprises an image of a possible back side of said check; performing by a processor at the financial institution Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on said check image, wherein said performing OCR comprises performing OCR on a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) line location of said image of said possible back side of said check to confirm that said image of said possible back side of said check does not bear a MICR line; and obtaining deposit information from said check image based on the OCR.