X-Message-Number: 8231 Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:02:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Perry E. Metzger" <> Subject: storing information on paper or microfilm Charles Platt proposes storing information on paper or microfilm as computer scannable text. It is trivial to gain far higher densities with two dimensional variations on bar codes. It is very simple to produce scanners to decode these, and the process is also far easier to automate than the process of scanning text. With suitable error correcting codes embedded, very high rates of fidelity are possible. Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8231