Patent ID: 8794510

Claim:
A method for processing bank notes in which accounting units comprising one or several bank notes are successively processed by a processing machine, wherein the bank notes are checked by a sensor device and a control device, comprising the steps: inserting one or more accounting units, entering information items characterizing the accounting units, singling the bank notes of each accounting unit, checking the individual bank notes, and assigning and transporting the individual bank notes to output units of the processing machine, in dependence on the check, accounting bank notes which are recognized upon the check for the respective accounting unit by the control device and transporting the recognized bank notes into the assigned output unit, dividing bank notes which are not recognized upon the check into two groups by the control device, so that a first group of said groups contains the non-recognized individual bank notes for which an identification feature characterizing the respective bank note can be ascertained by sensor device and control device, and the second group of said groups contains the non-recognized bank notes whose respective identification feature cannot be ascertained by the sensor device and the control device, separating out bank notes of the first and second group, and assigning, via the control device the ascertained identification features of the bank notes of the first group to the respective accounting unit.