Patent ID: 8336767

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a banking system operable to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, wherein the banking system includes an automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes at least one input device comprising at least one reader, wherein the at least one reader is operable to read user data, wherein the machine is operable to carry out a transaction on a financial account for a machine user, based at least in part on user data read by the at least one reader corresponding to the financial account, and the machine user being recognized as an authorized user of the machine, wherein the machine includes at least one output device comprising at least one display, wherein the machine includes a document acceptor, wherein the document acceptor includes an inlet opening, a transport path, and a document storage area, wherein the inlet opening is sized to receive documents therethrough, wherein the document storage area is sized to store documents therein, wherein the transport path extends in the document acceptor along a first direction between the inlet opening and the document storage area, wherein the transport path includes a document alignment area, wherein the document alignment area includes at least one alignment member operable to align respective documents, wherein the at least one alignment member is operable to engage and move a document in the document alignment area, wherein the at least one alignment member is operable to simultaneously move the entire document both in the first direction and in a second direction which is transverse to the first direction, wherein the document alignment area includes at least one sensor, wherein the at least one sensor is operable to sense the document in the document alignment area, wherein the at least one sensor is operable to sense the document while the document is being moved by the at least one alignment member, wherein the at least one sensor is operable to emit signals corresponding to sensed positions of the document in the document alignment area, wherein the banking system includes at least one computer associated with the machine, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with the at least one input device, the at least one output device, the at least one sensor, and the at least one alignment member, wherein the at least one computer is operable responsive at least in part to signals emitted by the at least one sensor, to cause the at least one alignment member to simultaneously move the document in both the first direction and the second direction.