System and method for processing currency bills and tickets

A method of processing documents, comprising:

• receiving at least one batch of documents including U.S. currency bills and barcoded casino tickets;
• transporting via a transport mechanism the at least one batch of documents, one document at a time, past an evaluation unit, the evaluation unit including a currency detector and an image scanner;
• denominating the U.S. currency bills in the at least one batch of documents with the currency detector;
• imaging the barcoded casino tickets in the at least one batch of documents with the image scanner to produce an image file.

A method of processing documents, comprising:

• receiving a batch of documents including U.S. currency bills and barcoded casino tickets, each barcoded casino ticket having a barcoded pattern;
• transporting the batch of documents via a transport mechanism, one document at a time, along a transport path;
• imaging each of the documents transported along the transport path with an image scanner to generate image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of each of the documents;
• using a controller, denominating each of the U.S. currency bills from the image data associated with each of the U.S. currency bills;
• and
• using the controller or another controller, decoding the barcoded pattern of each barcoded casino ticket from the image data associated with each barcoded casino ticket.

A method of processing documents using a document processing device, comprising the acts of:

• receiving a stack of documents including U.S. currency bills and barcoded casino tickets in an input receptacle of the document processing device, each barcoded casino ticket having at least one barcode;
• transporting the documents via a transport mechanism of the document processing device, one document at a time, along a transport path past a currency detector, a barcode scanner, and an image scanner of the document processing device;
• denominating each of the U.S. currency bills transported along the transport path using information derived from the currency detector of the document processing device;
• scanning a barcode on each barcoded casino ticket transported along the transport path using the barcode scanner of the document processing device;
• and
• imaging each barcoded casino ticket transported along the transport path using the image scanner of the document processing device such that image data reproducible as a visually readable image is generated for each barcoded casino ticket.

A method of processing documents using a document processing device, comprising the acts of:

• receiving, in an input receptacle of the document processing device, at least one batch of documents including U.S. currency bills and barcoded casino tickets;
• transporting via a transport mechanism of the document processing device the documents from the input receptacle, one document at a time, past an evaluation unit, the evaluation unit including a currency detector and an image scanner;
• denominating the U.S. currency bills in the at least one batch of documents using information obtained from the currency detector;
• imaging the barcoded casino tickets in the at least one batch of documents using the image scanner of the document processing device to produce an image file for each of the barcoded casino tickets.

A method of processing documents using a document processing device, comprising the acts of:

• receiving a batch of documents including U.S. currency bills and barcoded casino tickets in an input receptacle of the document processing device, each barcoded casino ticket having a barcoded pattern;
• transporting the documents in the batch of documents via a transport mechanism of the document processing device, one document at a time, from the input receptacle along a transport path past an image scanner of the document processing device;
• imaging each of the documents transported along the transport path using the image scanner of the document processing device to generate image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of each of the documents;
• using a controller, denominating each of the U.S. currency bills using the image data associated with each of the U.S. currency bills;
• and
• using the controller or another controller, decoding the barcoded pattern of each barcoded casino ticket using the image data associated with each barcoded casino ticket.