Method and apparatus for handling value documents

An apparatus for processing value documents, comprising;

• a) an input pocket for receiving one or several input stacks of value documents, which are inserted in the input pocket;
• b) a singling device for singling the value documents from the input pocket;
• c) at least one sensor for checking the value documents;
• d) a transport system for transporting the value documents in dependence on results of the chock and sorting the value documents in different deposit pockets of the value document processing apparatus;
• e) a reject transport device for automatically transporting reject value documents back from the reject deposit area to the input pocket;
• f) a control device which controls the apparatus and the reject transport device, such that
• the reject value documents are deposited in a reject deposit area separately from the valid value documents,
• the reject value documents are transported back from the reject deposit area to the input pocket and re-inserted in the input pocket, and
• the reject value documents re-inserted in the input pocket are checked again by the apparatus;
• wherein
• the reject transport device has several reject transport units, which each have an individual machine-readable identifier;
• the reject transport device has a reader for reading the machine-readable identifier of the reject transport units;
• the control device controls the reject transport device such that the reject value documents of the different input stacks are deposited in different reject transport units separately from each other, and are transported back to the input pocket of the value document processing apparatus in the different reject transport units;
• an evaluation device, which uses the machine-readable identifier of the respective reject transport unit read by the reader for assigning the reject value documents from the respective reject transport unit to the input stack to which these reject value documents belong.