The image data (BDAT) associated with a respective document are transmitted to one of a plurality of recognition units for processing in a recognition process comprising a plurality of partial processes. The allocation of the processing jobs and the monitoring of the time cycles of the recognition processes...http://www.google.com/patents/US5475770?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5475770 - Parallel recognition of document images with a time-elapsed processing abortion to improve overall throughput
