VERFAHREN UND EINRICHTUNG ZUR RECHNERGESTEUERTEN ERSTELLUNG VON BELEGEN, DOKUMENTEN O.DGL

1. A method for the computer controlled prepration of documents from primary data, employing a reading device, a data processing device, a priting device, and a data carrier in the form of a sheet or a card which is divided into two sections, which comprises the document which is to be prepared and on which in addition to in part machine-readable and in part other primary data, further items of new data which can be derived from the machine-readable primary data are machine-recorded, characterized by the following features : a) a data carrier is used which additionally has in the two sections a zone for the accommodation similar handwritten marks, graphic patterns or images, where the primary data are entered in machine-readable optical characters in the first section which is assigned exclusively to the primary data, and where the second section is provided as the document which is to be prepared, b) the machine-readable primary data are machine-read in the reading device in the form of an optical character recognition device, c) the new data items, which are obtained from the read primary data following their checking, processing and possibly supplementation by means of the data processing device, are printed in optical characters in the printing device on the second section of the data carrier which serves as document, where the reading operation and printing operation are carried out in consecutive steps in the same data carrier run, and reading device an printing device are commonly positioned relative to the data carrier.