The invention relates to Smart Documents to be used in various administrative,
financial and other applications, in particular bank cheques and other paper value
documents that require authentication, boarding passes for transport systems, documents
for access functions and multipurpose uses, in particular Smart Documents that
comprise a pliable thin portion (10) carrying on its front and/or rear face
imprinted visible data, and a thick portion (5) wherein a magnetic strip
(62) and/or storage chip (5a) of the contact and/or contactless
type is/are merged. The document's thick portion (5), i.e. wherein the magnetic
strip and/or storage chip is merged, is a planar card (58) attached to an
edge (15) of the document's thin portion (10) in a manner allowing
inclination of the card (58) relative to the thin portion. This makes it
very easy to pass the combined document through reading/writing devices, while
the thickness of the card portion (58) allows incorporation of magnetic
strips (62) and/or storage chips (59) of high storage capacity.