Patent ID: 8251360

Claim:
A sheet handling apparatus comprising: a first module arranged along a sheet conveyance route from the upstream to the downstream thereof, and a second module arranged adjacent to the first module, wherein the first module including: a take-out part to take out a sheet one by one from a sheet bundle fed into a supply portion; a first conveyance route to convey the taken out sheet from the take-out part; a discriminating device to discriminate classification of the sheet conveyed along the first conveyance route; and a first control part to transmit destination information and classification information of the sheet discriminated by the discriminating device and to execute a conveyance control to the sheet residing along the first conveyance route, and wherein the second module including: a second conveyance route to convey further the sheets conveyed from the first module; a first stacking device to stack the sheet conveyed along the second conveyance route based on the destination information and classification information received from the first module in each classification; and a second control part to execute a conveyance control to the sheet residing along the second conveyance route, and to transmit information of the number of sheets in each classification stacked in the first stacking device, wherein the first control part is configured to execute a cross-check whether the information of the number of sheets in each classification received from the second control part matches with the destination information and the information of the number of sheets transmitted to the second control part or not.