Check Image Import™ (CII)

Check Image Import (CII) provides users the ability to import check images into the Carreker Check Image Management System (CIMS).

SUMMARY

The Carreker Check Image Import (CII) product adds enhanced usability to the many suppliers of hardware and software that are capable of lifting images of checks and storing the images and their associated data. Some of these systems can be directly attached to the Carreker image capture environment, but others cannot.

Many of Carreker' image customers have a mix of check image systems installed. Check Image Import allows banks the ability to import check images into the Carreker Check Image Management System (CIMS) in those cases where direct attachment of the capture devices is either not possible or not desirable. This allows CIMS to serve as the central repository for all check images.

FORMATS

The most prevalent image compression formats created by these systems are:

• CCITT-G4 for black/white
• Joint Photograph Experts Group (JPEG) for gray scale
• Both JPEG and G4 are wrapped in TIFF wrappers.
  

FUNCTION

Check Image Import allows images to be loaded without requiring that the images be recompressed. The images can then be processed using the Carreker Image Delivery System (IDS). The imported check image wrappers will be converted to IOCA, image access key information added, and the IOCA wrapped G4 or JPEG compressed images and keys written to CIMS. The images can then be retrieved for viewing or can be packaged on CD-ROM for viewing at your customers location. All normal IDS viewing options are available for these images.

PROCESS

The images and corresponding MICR input data must be formatted in a pre-defined Common Input File Format (CIFF). This file can be delivered on tape cartridges or as a host based flat file.

Check Image Import reads the CIFF file with input images TIFF or IOCA wrapped, and ABIC, JPEG or G4 compression. CII converts the wrappers to IOCA format, writes the images out to CIMS, updates the CIMS directory, and creates an Image Access Key (IAK) format file, providing summary information about the imported items.

Once the images are stored in CIMS they are available to be processed by the full suite of check image applications. These images can be viewed, printed as part of an image statement, or written out to CD-ROMs for delivery to the bank's customers.

If a long-term check image archive has been implemented, these images can be staged to other DASD, optical disk, or tape storage, along with images captured on direct attached check image capture systems.

FEATURES

• Check Image Import can be used to import check images from other Carreker based check systems, supporting the interchange of check images between institutions, or as a means of transferring check images within a single, multi-site organization.
  
• Check Image Import allows images to be imported at up to 100,000 images per hour, per copy of CII.
  
• Check Image Import allows the Carreker check image system to serve as a consolidation point for all check images.
  
• Check Image Import can accept all of the most common image formats, store and manipulate these images, and will allow banks to meet the needs of their customers, while preserving their investments in ancillary check image systems for retail lock box, returns items, etc. that may not be based on the Carreker check image capture software system.

For more information about this solution, contact Doug Halvorsen at 704.602.5335 or complete our Information Request Form.