An original document of one or more pages containing human-readable printed information is encoded in one or more two-dimensional bar code symbols and transmitted by facsimile to a remote site where a facsimile of the symbols is machine read, decoded and printed to provide an accurate reproduction of...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5506697?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5506697 - Apparatus for processing human-readable and machine-readable documents
Apparatus for processing human-readable and machine-readable documents