The movement towards Check21 Image Exchange in banking requires that images be of a good enough quality to support operations. What is good enough? In general it means that various fields be recognizable and legible. For the customers it means that additional printing on the checks be legible for their purposes.

In any scanning based process it is vital to verify the quality of incoming material, particularly when dealing with mechanical feeders and with contracted labor it is very useful to quickly QA the incoming image stream to spot such production issues as:

	Blank pages		Out of focus
	Mangled, deformed pages due to misfeeds		Skewed images
	Partial pages due to misfeeds, rips or mishandling		Incorrect document in stream
	Too dark or too light scanning		Damaged, obscured objects on the image

By eliminating these deficiencies from the batch stream, the process operates correctly and quickly. Exceptions can be highlighted and dealt with as needed. Peace of mind and productivity are the result.

Where Inlite Research Fits In

Inlite Professional Services can help you architect and debug the process.

ClearImage Tools can assure the quality of incoming document images by utilizing functions such as:

Measures histograms in X and Y directions
Identify, measure and extract objects
Compare forms and documents, locate blank or non blank areas
Determine skew and rotation

These capabilities can also be used to optimize the flow of operations. For example, ClearImage Tools can determine that text is absent from a region, thus the OCR step can be bypassed in the flow, saving time. Similar decisions can be made with respect to other image attributes.