System and method for duplicate detection

摘要

A duplicate detection system is provided for analyzing and processing documents received at one or more capture sites. A physical document may be electronically captured at a capture site and subsequently transmitted to a regional or central processing system. The regional or central processing system may receive capture documents from multiple capture sites. The processing system may analyze the captured documents to identify and flag false-positives prior to performing duplicate detection. Duplicate detection may be performed in accordance with predefined rules associated with false-positive flags. Once duplicate detection is complete, suspected duplicates may undergo manual review while non-duplicates are released for posting or dispatching.

主权项

1. A method for processing financial transactions, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, by a document processing system having at least one processor, a document; determining, by the document processing system, whether the document corresponds to a potential false-positive duplicate item, wherein said determination is based on characteristics of the document and one or more predefined rules for identifying potential false-positive duplicate items, and wherein said determination is not based on a comparison of the document to one or more other documents; when the document corresponds to a potential false-positive duplicate item, flagging the document by the document processing system as a potential false-positive duplicate item, wherein flagging the document indicates a manner in which an image of the document is to be analyzed by a duplicate detector, and wherein flagging the document includes selecting a false-positive flag type from a plurality of flag types based on one or more characteristics of the document; and providing the document to the duplicate detector after determining whether the document corresponds to a potential false-positive duplicate item, wherein duplicate detection performed by the duplicate detector differs based on whether the document corresponds to a potential false-positive duplicate item.