The invention relates to a method for automatically inserting documents for displaying on a display device and/or for copying in a digitisation device, such as microfiches, microfilm jackets or similar, which are conveyed one at a time from a holding magazine for a stack of documents to be processed to a document support and from there, to a deposit magazine for the processed documents. According to said method, the top document of a stack of documents in the holding magazine is drawn upwards by suction, approximately to the level of the document support, the remaining stack then being retained in the magazine by suction in the opposite direction. The document that is drawn up by suction is transported to the document support sideways and deposited on said document support by terminating the suction effect. After processing, the document is once again drawn by suction and transported to the deposit magazine.