A method is provided for evaluating a document, including the following steps: providing an image data connection for transmitting an image signal between a second data processing device, which includes an image recording device, and a first data processing device, recording a transaction identification number associated with user data in the first data processing device, transferring user data to the first data processing device, recording a document by means of the image recording device and transmitting an image of the document to the first data processing device by means of the image data connection, evaluating the document, and storing the result of the evaluation with the transaction identification number and the user data in a database.