Method of ordering displayed document images in an image based document processing system

Claim 1

In an image-based document processing system for processing transactions, each transaction comprising debit and credit documents having amount data, a method comprising: providing a workstation having a display, said workstation including data entry means; capturing images of said documents; storing captured images in image storage means; extracting data from said documents, the extracted data including amount data and document identifying data; storing said extracted data in a computer data base; accessing said image storage means to retrieve document images of selected transactions, at least certain ones of the accessed transactions consisting of a single credit document image and a single debit document image, each having the same amount, the document images in the retrieved selected tractions, being in a first predetermined order; reordering the document images so that they are in a second predetermined order for purposes of display, said second predetermined order being such that said single debit document image is separated by at least one other document image from said single credit document image; and sequentially displaying document images, one document image at a time, of the retrieved selected transactions in accordance with said second predetermined order; and entering amount data into said data base based on the displayed document images.