IMAGE-BASED DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED WORKSTATION BALANCING

An image-based transaction processing system which captures and stores images of debit and credit transaction documents, while also extracting document data for storage in a computer data base. The computer processes the extracted document data to identify out-of-balance transactions. The document images of an out-of-balance transaction are sent to a balancing workstation which provides a multi-window display for controllably displaying the transaction in a manner which permits the cause of the out-of-balance condition to be readily determined and corrected. The multi-window display includes windows for displaying selected images of debit and credit documents as well as windows for displaying credit and debit amounts and the out-of-balance amount of the transaction. A dialogue window is additionally provided for dialoguing with the computer. Provision is further made for processing transaction document data to determine a suspected document, which is identified in an appropriate window, such as by highlighting.