Patent ID: 8437532

Claim:
A method of processing a deposit transaction involving a plurality of documents in a document processing device, the document processing device performing the acts comprising: displaying a first prompt to insert a deposit slip associated with the deposit transaction, the deposit slip including declared information, the declared information at least including a total declared cash-in amount and a total declared check amount; receiving the deposit slip associated with the deposit transaction in an input receptacle of the document processing device; transporting the deposit slip at a first transportation speed along a transport path from the input receptacle past an image scanner; imaging the deposit slip with the image scanner to produce image data associated with the deposit slip, the image data associated with the deposit slip being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of the deposit slip; extracting the total declared cash-in amount and the total declared check amount from the image data associated with the deposit slip; first determining that the total declared cash-in amount is a non-zero number; second determining the total declared check amount; in response to the first determining, displaying a second prompt to insert currency bills associated with the deposit transaction, the second prompt being separate and distinct from the first prompt; receiving the currency bills associated with the deposit transaction in the input receptacle of the document processing device; transporting the currency bills, in a serial fashion, at a second transportation speed along the transport path from the input receptacle past the image scanner; imaging the currency bills with the image scanner to produce image data associated with each of the currency bills, the image data associated with each individual currency bill being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective currency bill; generating deposit information from the image data associated with each of the currency bills, the deposit information at least including a calculated total cash deposit amount; and comparing the deposit information with the declared information to determine if the deposit transaction is balanced.