Re: (OT) MICR check scanning

If you are truly going the MICR route, then you are talking some fairly niche (and thus expensive) hardware. Go talk to the SysProgs at your local bank and ask them what a MICR-reader goes for these days; also ask them if it's a main-frame only device (I'll bet it is). You probably will have better luck with a good flat-bed scanner and some decent OCR software.

One thing to consider, if you are looking to automate a check reconcilliation system, is that not all the checks you write will come back to you. More and more of my accounts are going over to electronic funds transfer. What appears on my bank statement is a reference to the check number I wrote, with no returned piece of paper (for example "DES:CHECK PYMT ID:3347") to close the audit trail. I suspect that I can get the paper check, it will just cost the Earth and half the Ocean to do it.

Sigh. This Modern Age....

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Re^2: (OT) MICR check scanning
by grep (Monsignor) on Nov 01, 2006 at 04:04 UTC

grep

One dead unjugged rabbit fish later

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by leocharre (Priest) on Nov 03, 2006 at 16:25 UTC

Thing is those are one at a time. My co workers have about 1k per cubicle- plus i suspect 25k+ in archive that would be nice to get rid of.

i don't know if the office can afford that kind of expense. For the heavy duty hardware.

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Re^2: (OT) MICR check scanning
by leocharre (Priest) on Nov 03, 2006 at 17:08 UTC

I think bank of america will let you view a photo of your check. (I wonder about doing something so someone can wget/rip those off their account online.)

I'm doing this for an accounting offices. This one has thousands upon thousands that are being gone through by. .. hand- sometimes they *have* to- a lot of these have funny glitches that some normal MICR check readers would not do

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