Compact remote-driven encoder with deskewing roller assembly

A compact, remotely driven MICR encoder, comprising,

• a tray for storing documents to be encoded;
• a document feed roller downstream of the tray, in a document path of travel through the encoder, wherein documents exiting from the tray come into contact with the feed roller, move around a portion of the feed roller, and exit from contact with the feed roller at a substantial angle relative to their entering angle;
• a deskewing roller assembly, positioned adjacent the tray, wherein the deskewing roller assembly includes a roller element which comes into contact with a frontmost document in the tray, the roller assembly including a motor for positively driving the roller element independently of the feed roller, such that the document is reliably presented to the document feed roller;
• means positioned further along the document path of travel for encoding the documents;
• means for moving the document past the encoding means;
• and
• means for moving an encoded document away from the encoding means.