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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Wayne M. Doran, Kitchener, CA;
Wayne M. Doran, Kitchener, CA;
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of providing an indication of quality of an image of a document comprises the steps of (a) storing apriori data which is representative of a line contained in at least one field associated with the document, (b) receiving image data which is representative of the image of the document, (c) retrieving the stored apriori data based upon a first portion of the document image data, (d) comparing a second portion of the document image data with the retrieved apriori data, (e) providing an indication of quality of the image of the document based upon the comparison of the second portion of the document image data with the retrieved apriori data, and (f) processing the status signal to alert an operator of quality of the image of the document being below a predetermined threshold.