Method and device for further processing value documents

An apparatus for further processing value documents that have been processed with a value document processing apparatus and stacked to form stacks of value documents and that have been bundled together with an enclosing material to form a bundle,

• wherein the value document processing apparatus has determined a respective visible serial number of the respective bundle,
• wherein the apparatus has:
• a control device which is connected to the value document processing apparatus and is adapted to process the respective visible serial number determined by the value document processing apparatus of the respective bundle from the value document processing apparatus, and to determine a machine-readable identification for the respective bundle based on the visible serial number of the respective bundle and to produce a linking information item which specifies with which visible serial number the respective machine-readable identification is linked,
• a labeling device which is connected to the control device and is adapted to process a machine-readable identification transmitted by the control device to the labeling device, and which is adapted to create a label which has the machine-readable identification transmitted by the control device, and which is adapted to label the respective bundle bundled together with the enclosing material to form a bundle,
• a transport device for transporting the respective bundle output from the value document processing apparatus and bundled together with an enclosing material to form a bundle to the labeling device in order to label the respective bundle with the label created for the respective bundle, wherein the labeling device is separated from the value document processing apparatus by the transport device, and
• an inspection device for detecting the respective bundle, which has at least one camera which is arranged such that it can record an image of the respective bundle on which the visible serial number of the respective bundle and its label are depicted,
• wherein the inspection device and/or the control device is adapted to check the respective bundle after the bundle has been transported away from the value document processing apparatus by the transport device, and, when checking the respective bundle, is adapted to:
• extract an actual visible serial number of the respective bundle from the image recorded by the inspection device,
• ascertain the visible serial number that belongs to the machine-readable identification of the label that was created for the respective bundle based on the visible serial number of the respective bundle, and
• compare the actual visible serial number of the respective bundle with the visible serial number belonging to the machine-readable identification of the respective label,
• wherein, in dependence on whether the checking of the respective bundle has a result that the actual visible serial number of the respective bundle matches the visible serial number belonging to the machine-readable identification of the respective label or not, the further processing of the respective bundle is continued in a case that there is a match and stopped in a case that there is not a match.