Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

A method of processing a deposit transaction involving a plurality of documents in a document processing device, the document processing device performing the acts comprising:

• displaying a first prompt to insert a deposit slip associated with the deposit transaction, the deposit slip at least including a customer account number;
• receiving the deposit slip associated with the deposit transaction in an input receptacle of the document processing device;
• transporting the deposit slip at a first transportation speed along a transport path from the input receptacle past an image scanner;
• imaging the deposit slip with the image scanner to produce image data associated with the deposit slip, the image data associated with the deposit slip being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of the deposit slip;
• extracting the customer account number from the image data associated with the deposit slip;
• displaying a second prompt to insert currency bills associated with the deposit transaction;
• receiving the currency bills associated with the deposit transaction in the input receptacle of the document processing device;
• transporting the currency bills, in a serial fashion, at a second transportation speed along the transport path from the input receptacle past the image scanner;
• imaging the currency bills with the image scanner to produce image data associated with each of the currency bills, the image data associated with each individual currency bill being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective currency bill.