Patent Document ID: 20140140571
Application ID: 13410753
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An automated document processing machine comprising: an electro-mechanical transport configured to convey a document through the processing machine; a camera arranged adjacent the transport and configured to capture an image of a front side of the document, wherein the camera comprises a Multi-Line Optical Character Recognition (MLOCR) device; a fingerprinting software component configured to process the captured image of the document to create a unique digital fingerprint of the document based on indicia appearing in the captured image; and a software interface configured to store the unique digital fingerprint in a database comprising a plurality of fingerprints associated with a plurality of documents, wherein the unique digital fingerprint identifies the document as being unique among the plurality of documents, wherein the unique digital fingerprint is created without capturing an image of a back side of the document, and wherein the database relates the unique digital fingerprint to a destination address code for sorting the document.