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The article concerns quality evaluation of documents in historical, comparative, and typological perspectives. The author revealed that documents (not only written ones) have been evaluated from the very beginning of a script culture. Nowadays such evaluation is needed in many disciplines and fields, like media and journalism, penal prosecution agencies, museums, and science. However, new media generated significant changes in evaluating processes. The opposition between an original and a copy has vanished, website personalization undermined a typographic system as a stable document’s feature. The article includes also a proposed form of document evaluation.