A method for automatically inserting documents to be displayed on a display device and/or copied in a digitizing device, such as microfiches, microfilm jackets and the like, in connection with which one document at a time is transported from a holding magazine for receiving a stack of documents to be processed, to a document support, and from there to a deposit magazine for receiving the processed document, characterized in that from a stack of documents contained in the holding magazine, the top document is pulled up by suction to about the level of the document support, and the remaining stack is subsequently retained in the holding magazine by suction in the opposite direction;
- the document picked up by suction is transported sideways to the document support, and placed on the latter by terminating the suction effect, and after the document has been processed, it is engaged again by suction and transported to the deposit magazine.