Abstract: A device for automatically reading checks, wherein a scanner includes a reading unit for reading an identification code on the check, and a reading unit for taking an image of the surface of the check, and the device also includes a central processing unit receiving the digitized image of the check, and for defining an the image, on the basis of the identification code, at least two subimages respectively containing the numeric amount and the alphabetic amount of the check. The device also provides for binary-coding the subimages to automatically read the numeric and alphabetic amounts in the binary-coded subimages, and for correlating the two amounts to elect a final amount, which is displayed on a video of the processing unit together with the image of the check.

Abstract: A biprogrammable computer is provided with an operator actuable selector switch. Each position of the selector switch of the computer assigns the keyboard, the console and the display to a selected one of the two programs in progress, so that the data entered by the keyboard is automatically transferred to the memory zone allocated to the program selected at the same time the display displays messages of the selected program. If the program not selected by the selector switch must alert the operator to some abnormalities, it activates a lamp and an associated buzzer. The operator after the end of the keyboard operation, actuates the selector switch and removes the cause of the abnormality. Registers are provided for storing the point of interruption of a program being processed, as well as information for determining if the data being entered by the keyboard relates to the program selected.