Glossary

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 color images
Eight-bit grey scale with a color table in which only 3 bits can be used for 5 different colors, calculated by SIC PROPER and used by SIC MODAL
PSV
Physical signature verification of a check (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 color image.
VC
Valued
VSV

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

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