Image-based document processing system providing enhanced transaction balancing

Claim 1

In an image-based transaction processing system, wherein each transaction includes debit and credit documents containing amounts, the method comprising: capturing images of said documents; extracting document data from said documents including document amounts; said extracting including: automatically reading amounts on said documents; transmitting to a plurality of amount-reading workstations images of documents which can not be successfully automatically read; displaying document images transmitted to said amount-reading workstations for determining amounts thereon; and storing extracted document data in a data base: processing extracted amounts from said documents in said data base to identify out-of-balance transactions; transmitting the document images of a particular out-of-balance transaction along with corresponding extracted document data to a balancing workstation having a display; providing a multi-window display of said particular out-of-balance transaction on the workstation display; displaying in a first window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected credit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction; displaying in a second window of said multi-window display at least a partial image of a selected debit document of said particular out-of-balance transaction; displaying in at least one additional window of said multi-window display amounts from documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction; processing extracted document data from the documents of said particular out-of-balance transaction to determine a particular document having an amount which may not be correct; and displaying an indication in said additional window identifying said particular document; the above recited operations of said amount reading workstations being overlapped with the operations of said balancing workstation.