A check processing method involves capturing at a first compression rate certain portions of a received check, and evaluating, based on that captured image data, whether certain information of the check can be reproduced by image data at a second compression rate that is greater than the first compression...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7584148?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7584148 - Apparatus and method for processing a check, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a check processing control program
