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
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Visual signature verification, possibly in two levels (VSV1 and VSV2)
- VTV
- Visual technical verification (for checks), possibly in two levels (VTV1 and VTV2)