The invention relates to a pocket-sized device for photocopying small parts of documents. A flat package (1) includes a first face (2) for reading the document by means of a charge coupled device for transferring charges (4, 18) and at least one incremental wheel (6), which as it rolls without sliding on the document furnishes a time base for the reading interval (24). It includes a second face (3) for reading, by means of a matrix printer (12), and at least one incremental wheel (11). At each r...

Two or more copies of a document are made with complementary portions missing for separate secure transporting or storing. The copies may be made on an electrostatic copies having an image erase feature or on a printer which can impress an erase signal on the printing signal.

The present invention relates to a system for the vehicular transportation of a lock-equipped cassette (1) for valuable documents between a first station, e.g. a bank or a post office, to a second station. The cassette (1) is intended to be kept in a cassette holder or rack (2) in the first station and the second station, and also in the transporting vehicle. The cassette is provided with an electronic circuit (R1,22) which is characteristic to the cassette concerned and which is arranged to co-...

A large document scanner has a transparent top plate glass plate large enough to support an E size drawing. The base of the cabinet supports a trapezoidal mirror tilted up from the bottom with the larger parallel side above the bottom. The image of a document on the transparent plate is reflected by the trapezoidal mirror to a digital imaging camera system having a mechanically displaced electronically scanned array located inside the cabinet to the side. Tubular lamps located adjacent to bowed ...

A document filing system including a document holder (1) provided along the top edge (3) thereof with retaining means (4) arranged to engage in complementary shaped supporting means (8), the release of the holder (1) and associated retaining means (4) from the said supporting means (8) being effected by relative movement between the retaining (4) and supporting means (8) in a direction normal to that required to locate the holder (1) and associated retaining means (4) on said supporting means (8...

An apparatus for separating documents from one another includes two spaced-apart rollers which define a gap therebetween. The rollers rotate so that the surfaces which face one another move in opposite directions. One of the rollers serves to transport a document in the conveying direction, while the second countermoving roller serves to hold back any additional document which has been fed on top of the first document. The second roller is mounted so as to be pivotable, so that the gap between t...

The method is applicable to protecting security documents of the type comprising a substrate bearing information which is to be protected from tampering, together with transparent protective layers of thermoplastic material heat sealed around said substrate. The method provides a set of pigment-retaining micro-holes in the substrate, said pigment being soluble in protective layer solvents. Any attempt at dissolving away the protective layers to gain access to the support for tampering with the i...

A storage compartment can be used selectively as an individual compartment attached to a document processing device or as one of several compartments joined together in a sorting device. The compartment is functionally autonomous so that its component parts, which are drive and pressure rollers (23, 24, 25, and 27) for conveying documents supported on a base plate (1) and a motor (40) and electrical coupling for actuating the rollers, are all connected to the base plate (1). The only mechanical ...

In an apparatus for processing and serially dispensing discrete groups of documents, a system for identifying and sequentially arranging a plurality of coded documents traveling in a stream. The documents are conveyed individually from a source to a release position and, during the time that they are being conveyed, they are scanned to determine the presence of a document and also to read code which appears on the document. That information is stored in a processor. Documents are retained or rel...

A scanning system is provided for sequentially scanning both sides of a duplex document and projecting images onto a light sensitive linear array. In a first configuration, the platen and scan/illumination stations are fixed and the document is moved across the platen in a scan and reverse scan direction. The scan/illumination stations are sequentially energized and images of both sides of the document are directed along separate optical paths until they are redirected by a movable mirror assemb...