Patent ID: 8104673

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of processing, by a bank, an administrative cash letter file identifying at least one returned defective image item from among a plurality of items, wherein the bank comprises a plurality of processing sites for handling the plurality of items, the method comprising: obtaining from the administrative cash letter file an identifier for a processing site of the bank for each returned defective image item identified in the administrative cash letter file, wherein the defective image items are being returned to the bank for reprocessing due to defective images that cannot be processed by an institution; identifying, through the use of a processor, a processing site of the bank using the identifier indicating the processing site from a plurality of processing sites at which the each of the returned defective image items were processed; assembling a separate report corresponding to each processing site as indicated by the identifier, the separate report listing each returned defective image item for the processing site; and forwarding using an internal network the separate report to each processing site to enable the processing site to re-process each returned defective image item specific to the processing site using an original paper item that is stored at the processing site corresponding to each returned defective image item.