Verbs to Help Describe Document Activity

Reading or briefly reading a document / report:

read the document

just begun reading the document

just started reading the document

flipped through the document

scanned the document

skimmed the document

studied the document

translated the document

viewed the document

glanced at the document

perused the document

dipped into the document

go (went) over the document
gone over the document

go through the document

leafed through the document

poured over the documents

just scratched the surface of the all the documents