US 4,201,978 A · Document processing system

Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed for processing documents having human readable intelligent bearing written indicia located thereon and includes optical scanning means (46) for generating signals representing the pattern of the written indicia scanned by the scanning means. Means (40) also are provided for generating recognition data pertaining to certain characteristics of the written indicia associated with the owner of each document, which means includes an operator keyboard (26) for entering the location of the written indicia on the document, together with a number (60) identifying the owner, the number being located on the document and being used as an address in a storage unit (41) to store the recognition data generated which is employed in recognizing the characters of the indicia associated with the document. Subsequent processing of the owner's documents includes reading the identifying number on the document for use by a character recognition apparatus (46) to extract the appropriate recognition data from the storage unit stored at an address corresponding to the identifying number read for use in recognizing the written indicia on the document.

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Dependent claims

A system for processing documents encoded with alpha-numeric characters and containing human readable characters comprising:

(a) storage means;
(b) utilization means;
(c) means for generating data including keyboard means for entering into said storage means the encoded alpha-numeric characters on the document and data locating the human readable characters on the document, said data being stored in said storage means at an address represented by the encoded alpha-numeric characters;
(d) means for reading encoded alpha-numeric characters on a document being processed;
(e) and means responsive to the reading of the encoded alpha-numeric characters for retrieving from said storage means and transferring to said utilization means the data locating the human readable characters on the document stored in said storage means at the address represented by the encoded alpha-numeric characters.

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A system for processing bank checks magnetically encoded with a depositor's identification number and containing written amount characters comprising:

(a) means for moving a train of bank checks through a feed path;
(b) storage means;
(c) utilization means;
(d) means positioned adjacent the feed path for displaying the face of the bank check;
(e) means overlying the face of the bank check for locating the written amount characters on the face of the bank check;
(f) keyboard means operated in response to the displaying of the face of the bank check on said displaying means for generating data representing the depositor's identification number and the location of the written amount characters on the face of the bank check, said location data being stored in said storage means at an address represented by the identification number;
(g) magnetic character reading means positioned adjacent the feed path for reading the identification number on each bank check moving through said feed path;
(h) and means responsive to the reading of an identification number by said reading means for retrieving from said storage means and transferring to said utilization means the location data of the written amount on the bank check stored in the storage unit at an address corresponding to the identification number read by said reading means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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