Method of processing a check and an apparatus therefor

摘要

A method of processing a check without human intervention to determine if the check has a stale date comprises the steps of (a) extracting date data from a date field of the check, and (b) validating the extracted date data to determine if the extracted date data is representative of a date which is prior to a predetermined date and thereby to determine if the date data in the date field of the check is representative of a date which is stale. Preferably, step (b) includes the step of (b-1) comparing the extracted date data with date data which is representative of the predetermined date. The method may be at a check processing transport, a bank teller station, or an automated teller machine.