DOCUMENT SORTER AND METHOD

摘要

A document sorter comprises an input station (2) for receiving a stack of documents to be sorted; a plurality of output stations (6, 7, 8); a transport system (3) for transporting documents from the input station to the output stations; and a discriminator (5) for detecting a characteristic of each document fed by the transport system. A controller (14) is responsive to the discriminator (5) to control the transport system (3) to feed each discriminated document to the one of the output stations allocated to receive documents with the detected characteristic. The controller (14) is adapted to allocate output stations (6-8) for receiving documents having respective characteristics during the sorting operation.