Image-based document processing system providing enhanced transaction balancing

In an image-based transaction processing system, wherein each transaction includes debit and credit documents containing amounts, the method comprising:

• capturing images of said documents;
• extracting document data from said documents including document amounts;
• storing extracted document data in a data base;
• processing extracted amounts from said documents in said data base to identify out-of-balance transactions;
• transmitting the document images of a particular out-of-balance transaction along with corresponding extracted document data to a balancing workstation having a display;
• providing a multi-window display of said particular out-of-balance transaction on the workstation display;
• displaying in a first window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected credit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• displaying in a second window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected debit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• displaying in at least one additional window of said multi-window display amounts from documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• providing a dialogue window as one of the windows of said multi-window display via which an operator can communicate with said system using said keyboard, and via which said system can communicate with an operator by displaying data in said dialogue window.

In an image-based transaction processing system, wherein each transaction includes debit and credit documents containing amounts, the method comprising:

• capturing images of said documents;
• extracting document data from said documents including document amounts;
• storing extracted document data in a data base;
• processing extracted amounts from said documents in said data base to identify out-of-balance transactions;
• transmitting the document images of a particular out-of-balance transaction along with corresponding extracted document data to a balancing workstation having a display;
• providing a multi-window display of said particular out-of-balance transaction on the workstation display, said multi-window display including first, second and third windows and a dialogue window via which an operator can communicate with said system using said keyboard, and via which said system can communicate with an operator by displaying data in said dialogue window;
• displaying in said first window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected credit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• displaying in said second window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected debit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• displaying in said third window of said multi-window display amounts from documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction;
• processing extracted document data from the documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction to determine a particular document having an amount which may not be correct;
• displaying an indication in said third window identifying said particular document;
• and
• displaying in said dialogue window a plurality of choices which an operator may select in response to the occurrence of said particular out-of-balance transaction.