Patent ID: 7849994

Claim:
A method of processing documents, comprising: receiving a plurality of batches of documents in an input receptacle of a document processing device, each batch having a separator card associated therewith, the documents including at least currency bills; feeding the documents, one at a time, from the input receptacle into a transport mechanism of the document processing device; transporting via the transport mechanism the documents, one at a time, along a transport path past one or more sensors of the document processing device; sensing a separator card, after being fed into the transport mechanism, with at least one of the one or more sensors positioned along the transport path; pausing the feeding from the input receptacle between each batch after the sensing of a separator card by the at least one of the one or more sensors positioned along the transport path; and after pausing the feeding, transporting each document preceding a detected separator card to at least one output receptacle; determining whether all documents preceding a detected separator card have been transported to the at least one output receptacle; and resuming the feeding from the input receptacle after determining that all documents preceding a detected separator card have been transported to the at least one output receptacle.