Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

摘要

A batch of bills is received, transported, and imaged to produce image data. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of currency bills. Each currency bill includes a respective serial number. The serial numbers are extracted from the image data for each of the currency bills. Each extracted serial number is compared with a plurality of serial numbers in a currency bill database to determine if a currency bill associated with an extracted serial number is a suspect currency bill. One of the plurality of currency bills is determined to be a suspect currency bill based on the comparing. In response to determining the suspect currency bill, at least a portion of the produced image data is displayed as a visually readable image of the suspect currency bill on a display unit of the document processing system.

主权项

1. A document processing system for processing currency bills, the document processing system comprising:
a display; one or more processors; an input receptacle configured to receive a plurality of currency bills, each currency bill including a respective serial number; an image scanner configured to produce image data associated with currency bills received in the input receptacle, the image data being reproducible as visually readable images of at least a portion of a respective currency bill; a transport mechanism configured to transport the plurality of currency bills along a transport path from the input receptacle past the image scanner to an output receptacle; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the document processing system to implement the acts of:
transporting the plurality of currency bills from the input receptacle along the transport path;imaging the currency bills with the image scanner one at a time to produce image data associated with the currency bills;extracting the serial number from the image data for each of the currency bills;comparing each extracted serial number with a plurality of serial numbers in a currency bill database to determine if a currency bill associated with an extracted serial number is a suspect currency bill;determining that at least one of the plurality of currency bills is a suspect currency bill based on the act of comparing; andin response to the act of determining that one of the plurality of currency bills is a suspect currency bill, displaying at least a portion of the produced image data as a visually readable image of the suspect currency bill on the display.