APIA

Automatic Payment Image Analysis

 

ASV

Automatic signature verification

 

CI data

Coded information (non-image data)

 

DLL

Dynamic link library

 

dpi

dots per inch, unit of resolution for an image

 

Pseudo colour images

Eight-bit grey scale with a colour table in which only 3 bits can be used for 5 different colours, calculated by SIC PROPER and used by SIC MODAL

 

PSV

Physical signature verification of a cheque (in case of errors in the image or CI data)

 

PTSV

Physical technical and signature verification (in case of errors in the image or CI data)

 

Putter

The process that reads the SignCheck results data from the database and provides the interface to the payment transactions system/signature reading system.

 

Reject

Rejection, verification produced a negative result.

 

SC

SignCheck

 

SIC MODAL

A dynamic link library to enable forgery and facsimile detection in the signature verification process.

 

SIC PROPER

A DLL for processing grey images: background cleaning, foreground cleaning, adaptive 'binarization' (intelligent conversion into a binary image), conversion into a pseudo colour image.

 

VC

Valued customer; gets an extra handling of document rejects.

 

VSV

Visual signature verification, possibly in two levels (VSV1 and VSV2)

 

VTV

Visual technical verification (for cheques), possibly in two levels (VTV1 and VTV2)

 

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