Patent ID: 8903544

Claim:
A sheet handling apparatus comprising: a pickup unit which picks up a plurality of sheets loaded in a loading unit; a first determining unit which determines a type or a state of the sheet picked up by the pickup unit; a data collecting unit which collects handling amount data for respective types of the sheets or respective states of the sheets; a second determining unit which determines a distribution destination of the sheet based on the handling amount data for the respective types or the respective states of the sheets which are determined by the first determining unit; a distributing unit which distributes the sheet based on a determination result of the distribution destination of the sheet by the second determining unit; and a stacking unit composed of a plurality of cassettes to stack the distributed sheets, wherein the data collecting unit receives the handling amount data of the respective types or the respective states from an external apparatus, the handling amount data being obtained by an external sheet handling system that is separate from and external to the sheet handling apparatus.