A system for locating and identifying the amount of field on a check or other financial document including the steps of identifying the type of characters within each rectangular block as either machine print, hand print, decimal point, or vertical bar, and then using that identification of type to determine...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US5119433?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5119433 - Method and system for locating the amount field on a document
