US 6,351,553 B1 · Quality assurance of captured document images

Abstract

A method and apparatus are used to provide quality assurance for the electronic transfer of document image files, for example, between banks. The documents may be, in the case of a bank, negotiable instruments, checks, deposit slips or other transactional documents. The document image file contains an image tag file and associated image data file. An image tag file contains first quality assurance data. An image data file contains second quality assurance data. The quality assurance data may be a MICR line from the document. A first reader extracts the first quality assurance data from the image tag file. A second reader reads the second quality assurance data from the image data file. A comparator receives the first and second sets of quality assurance data from the first and second readers and compares the first and second sets of quality assurance data to find correspondence between the data. The level of the correspondence provides an indicator of the quality of the image data file and associated image tag file data.

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Dependent claims

A method for providing quality assurance for an electronically transferable image data file and associated image tag file of a document, comprising the steps:

extracting first quality assurance data from said image tag file,
extracting second quality assurance data from said image file, and
comparing said first quality assurance data and said second quality assurance data to find correspondence between said first and second quality assurance data, the level of said correspondence providing an indicator of the quality of said image data file and associated image tag file data.

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Quality assurance of captured document images

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Quality assurance of captured document images

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