A method of processing a deposit slip item in a check processing system
comprises the steps of (a) capturing an image of the deposit slip item,
(b) extracting account owner data from the captured image of step (a), (c)
recognizing an account owner name from the extracted account owner data of
step (b), and (d) storing the recognized account owner name of step (c) in
memory to provide a lexicon against which extracted payee data from a
check item can be compared. The method may further comprise the steps of
(e) generating a number of equivalent account owner names based upon the
extracted account owner data of step (b), and (f) storing the equivalent
account owner names of step (e) in memory to provide other lexicons
against which extracted payee data from a check item can be compared.
