Patent ID: 8261968

Claim:
A method of use of a paper-sheet handling system comprising the steps of: preparing a paper-sheet handling system configured to handle a bundle of paper-sheets including banknotes and bar-code tickets, the paper-sheet handling system including a banknote handling machine configured to take in paper-sheets, one sheet at a time, discriminate the banknotes included in the paper-sheets taken therein, and reject the paper-sheets when paper-sheets other than the banknotes are taken therein, a bar-code ticket handling machine configured to take in the paper-sheets, one sheet at a time, read bar-code information of each bar-code ticket included in the paper-sheets taken therein while obtaining an image of the bar-code ticket, and reject the paper-sheets when paper-sheets other than the bar-code tickets are taken therein, and a host controller being communicatively connected both with the banknote handling machine and with the bar-code ticket handling machine, information concerning the discrimination result of the banknotes being sent from the banknote handling machine to the host controller as well as the bar-code information read from each bar-code ticket being sent from the bar-code ticket handling machine to the host controller; preparing the bundle including the banknotes and the bar-code tickets; and first having either one handling machine of the banknote handling machine or bar-code ticket handling machine handle the prepared bundle of paper-sheets, and then having the other handling machine handle the paper-sheets that are rejected by the first used handling machine, wherein the banknote handling machine and the bar-code ticket handling machine are physically separate, the bar-code ticket handling machine includes an image obtaining section that directly obtains the whole image of each bar-code ticket, and the bar-code ticket handling machine is capable of handling five hundred or more sheets of bar-code tickets per minute.