Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Provision is made in electronic document processing systems for printing complete or partial compressed or, uncompressed machine readable digital representations of electronic source documents and human readable renderings of such source documents on the same recording media through the use of the same printing system. This integration of human readable renderings with machine readable representations of the electronic source documents upon which the renderings are based increases the precision of the information transfer that occurs when information is being transferred from the hardcopy domain to the electronic domain.