A novel recognition of Indian bank cheques based on invariant geometrical features

Automated bank cheque processing is becoming an important technology due to the massive amount of cheques to be processed daily by banks. Across the world still today many financial transactions are carried out using bank cheques. Everyday a large set of handwritten bank cheques are processed manually by the banking authorities. While performing a manual verification, handwritten textual information and machine printed shapes including Bank logo, date, signature, legal and courtesy amounts present on each cheque has to be visually verified. As many countries use cheque truncation systems (CTS) nowadays, much time, effort and money can be saved if this entire process of recognition, verification and data entry is done automatically using images of cheques. In this paper an attempt is made in this paper to present a systematic technique for automatic processing of Indian bank cheque images for identification and recognition of a specific types of bank cheques based on geometrical shapes of bank logo.