An automated check processing system for accepting and processing checks from a customer, having a plurality of document scanners. The document scanners are adapted to obtain full images of checks fed into the document scanners and to obtain images of selected portions of the checks. A printer may be included for printing an authorization agreement on the checks and for inscribing a transaction amount on the checks. The system also utilizes a conveyor for returning the checks with the agreement to the customer for signing. The image scanned is then communicated to a central clearinghouse via a communication link.
The apparatus for point of sale currency verification includes a point of sale check printer having a printing device configured to print information on first and second opposing faces of a document, a scanning device configured to scan the first and second faces of the document, a verification module configured to verify the authenticity of the document, and a retention area that is secure, coupled to the apparatus, and configured to retain the document until removed by an authorized person. The document may be a check or currency. The method includes printing information on first and second opposing faces of a document, scanning the first face of the document, verifying the authenticity of the document, and retaining the document until removed by an authorized person.
Image data is processed appropriately even when there is a problem with a storage component of an image scanning apparatus. The image scanning apparatus acquires image data and stores it in local storage memory, and sends a storage result report to a terminal computer. Based on this storage result report the terminal computer determines the image data processing method. The image scanning apparatus then processes the image data according to the method determined by the terminal computer.
A document reading apparatus reduces processing time and affords excellent ease of use in reading a slip document to acquire magnetic data and/or image data. As the slip is transported through a transportation path, a magnetic reading unit outputs magnetically read data acquired by reading printed magnetic ink characters from the slip and an optical reading unit outputs image data captured by optically imaging the same slip during the same pass through the transportation path. A parameter may be added to a single-pass read command for selectively specifying magnetic reading only, optical reading only, or both magnetic and optical reading as the type or types of reading of a slip during the single pass through the transportation path. Upon receiving the signal-pass read command with the parameter added thereto, a control unit interprets such command and added parameter by selectively controlling the magnetic and optical reading units to executing only the type or types of reading of the slip specified by the parameter in the single-pass read command.
An ambulance cot is disclosed and the ambulance cot having a base frame configured for support on a surface, a litter frame configured for supporting thereon a patient and an elevating mechanism interconnecting the base frame and the litter frame and configured to interconnect the litter frame and the base frame in order to facilitate movement of the base frame and the litter frame toward and away from each other. A control mechanism is provided on the cot which is configured to facilitate the movement of the base frame and the litter frame toward each other and at differing speeds predicated on at least one of whether the base frame is supported on the surface and the litter frame is supported by an external support separate from the elevating mechanism.
