A method for providing measurement data for value documents to a specified purpose of use employing a value-document processing device which has a transport device for transporting the value documents and a sensor device for capturing at least one property of value documents transported in the value-document processing apparatus by means of the transport device and forming measurement data describing the captured property, the method comprising:
- transporting value documents to the sensor device by means of the transport device and measurement data for each individual value document are respectively captured by means of the sensor device;
- testing whether the captured measurement data for each of the value documents meet a suitability criterion specified for the purpose of use;
- permanently storing the captured measurement data for each of the tested value documents that meets the suitability criterion specified for the purpose of use;
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- discarding the captured measurement data for each of the tested value documents that does not meet the suitability criterion specified for the purpose of use.