Image capture and processing in document-based transactions is becoming a strategic issue in the modernisation of banking systems world-wide for various applications such as on-line clearing, optical archiving of documents, database creation and enhanced customer services, e.g. printing the document image on a receipt issued when the transaction is completed. In general, moving data is more convenient and faster than moving paper, and in banking we all know time is money. Today over 20,000 CTS banking scanners are successfully employed in different imaging applications and environments throughout leading Financial Institutions and Post offices world-wide. The new LS family confirms our market leadership, to meet an ever wider range of application needs.