Method and apparatus for assembling sets of documents

• Main Author: HIDDING, GERHARD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.02.1995
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POSTAL SORTING; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTEDPIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING; STORING; TRANSPORTING

A brightness pattern of a document (71, 101) is stored in a memory. At least a part (73, 102, 105) of another document (71, 101) is optically scanned. The scanned brightness pattern is compared with the stored brightness pattern. When more than a specified minimum extent of agreement between the sca...