Secure financial report and method of processing and displaying the same

A method of locating and selecting a portion of a digital image to be excised from said image comprising:

• utilizing an imaging device having a processor associated therein to create said digital image;
• utilizing said processor to determine a location of at least two reference points within said digital image;
• utilizing said processor to select at least one of said reference points;
• utilizing said processor to scan said digital image in a preselected direction between said selected reference points to detect at least one horizontal line;
• utilizing said processor to locate a lower boundary point below said detected horizontal line;
• utilizing said processor to identify an excise region of the digital image bounded by a lower horizontal boundary which intersects said lower boundary point, an upper horizontal boundary which is located at a preselected distance above said lower horizontal boundary and the horizontal dimensions of the digital image;
• utilizing said processor to excise said excise region from said digital image.