Within the financial industry, document processing is an important part of the daily management of a business. Document processing systems include sorters for physically handling and retrieving data from checks and other items and data processors for analyzing and storing the retrieved data. The sorters and data processors intercommunicate data and instructions to individually read and process each check.
Conventional document sorters include microfilm and/or digital cameras for recording images of the documents being sorted. For digital images recorded by a digital camera, conventional sorters typically store these images within the sorter. Thus, a limited amount of memory is available, resulting in a limit on the number of images which may be stored. In addition, future use of the stored images generally requires that the images be retrieved from the memory of the sorter.