A device for processing a document includes a processing device for providing a document to be processed with information when this is in an effective range of the processing device with information; and a traversing device with a document carrier device that can be traversed along a trajectory. The traversing device is configured to receive a document to be processed at a transfer position of the device on or at a document-carrying surface of the document carrier device; to move the received document into the effective range of the processing device for its processing and out of the effective range of the processing device after its processing. The document carrier device is traversed at least in sections, at least with respect to a direction of movement component along a specific (first) direction of movement, which runs orthogonally to a plane defined by three different points on the document-carrying surface.