Patent ID: 8249396

Claim:
A method of handling at least one document from a plurality of financial documents, the at least one document subject to an exception, the method comprising: receiving one or more actual images of the at least one document and data corresponding to information associated with the at least one document, wherein the plurality of financial documents are exceptions for incoming return documents, outgoing return documents, or other exception documents; loading the one or more actual images of the at least one document and the data corresponding to information associated with the at least one document, into a document processing system for decisioning; decisioning an exception code for the one or more actual images of the at least one document and the data corresponding to information associated with the at least one document with reference to substantially only the one or more actual images of the at least one document and data corresponding to information associated with the at least one document without having to reference an original paper document corresponding to the at least one document after the one or more actual images of the at least one document are captured from the original paper document corresponding to the at least one document, wherein the exception code is useable to determine the disposition of the one or more actual images of the at least one document and the data corresponding to information associated with the at least one document in the document processing system; and dispatching the one or more actual images of the at least one document and the data corresponding to information with the at least one document in one of a plurality of formats subject to the exception code.