Having a passport card facilitates entry and expedites document processing.

But analysts said they were more interested in a 20.2 percent rise in fourth-quarter income from document processing, to $226 million.

For the year, document processing earned $600 million for the company, compared with $537 million for 1991.

Paul Allaire, Xerox's chairman and chief executive, said the company expected strong growth this year as it focused on document processing.

And Ikon is increasingly positioning itself as a company that handles all aspects of document processing.

Bell and Howell provides document processing, microfilmers, scanners, and financial services.

In document processing, second-quarter earnings fell to $122 million, from $128 million, as operating revenue rose 4 percent, to $3.5 billion.

It is intended to tie together otherwise incomplete solutions for enterprise search and document processing.

These centers are also capable of providing photocopying, document processing and photography services.

Income from document processing, the company's core business, was $128 million in the second quarter, compared with $123 million in 1989.