What a great idea. In the USA, banks have started allowing businesses to deposit cheques Electronically. The scanner reads the cheque and sends it to the bank automatically. What a great idea. Then the bank can send a scan of the cheque out to the person who wrote it with the monthly statement. [For some reason in the USA they still send cheques to the person who wrote them. I can remember my father getting his AmEx bill, and having all the slips come in too. That was a while back].