The Canon imageFORMULA CR-150N is a compact cheque scanner designed for banks, financial institutions and other organisations that process high volumes of cheques and payment documents. Its small footprint makes it suitable for customer service desks and counters where available workspace is limited.

The CR-150N scans up to 150 cheques per minute and supports a daily duty cycle of up to 12,000 scans. Its 150-sheet automatic document feeder enables larger batches to be processed efficiently with less manual intervention, supporting demanding cheque capture and transaction-processing workflows.

For accurate data capture, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) reads cheque code line information, while OCR technology reads characters from the scanned image and cross-checks the results. Duplex scanning captures both sides of each cheque, with black-and-white, greyscale and colour output at resolutions up to 300 dpi.

A built-in imprinter enables endorsement information to be printed on the back of cheques during scanning. It supports up to five lines of 60-character text as well as bitmap images without reducing the overall scanning speed.

The CR-150N can be integrated with existing cheque processing environments using Canon Scanning Utility, Canon ISIS/TWAIN drivers and the Ranger Transport API. The Canon CR Software Development Kit also supports customised integration with specific payment processing and document capture applications.