A machine for counting cheques or other documents is provided with an upper bin feed means (30b) feeding documents into a document separation means (38b, 44). A pair of opposed guide plates (24, 26) form a document feed path below the document separation means, one of the plates (24) being fixed in position between parallel support plates (20a) of the machine. The other guide plate (26) is pivotally supported relative to the parallel walls near one end and releasably latched relative thereto at the opposite end. The pivotally supported guide plate carries operative devices including the shafts of rotating devices. One such device is a printer roller (110). The guide means (26, 24) terminates above a generally horizontal conveyor (184) which runs counter to the direction of feed. The documents are fed successively onto the conveyor (184) beneath a floating roller (194) which allows documents which are driven to move as far as the drive urges them and then when drive ceases, moves the documents in the reverse direction toward a collection tray (210). A further roll (199) holds the documents in fanned out position so that they may be viewed as they come off the end of the conveyor and before they fall into the tray.