michael shiplett <michael.shiplett@umich.edu> sez:
tcm> Someone in Cypherpunks has a novel solution: print code in the tcm> most easily OCRable font---I think the suggestion was that OCR-A tcm> and OCR-B, or somesuch, are optimized for this (one would think tcm> so from the names, but I had thought they had something to do tcm> with the magnetic ink printing on checks...).
One of the computer magazines ("Compute"?) in the '80s used to supply source in a bar code format which was readily scanned into one's machine using one of those "light wands." I don't know what export restrictions might apply to this distribution method.
Something that an unaided human can't read easily might run into problems. Why not use a font that's pleasant to read and include a checksum for each line? The reduced character set should make errors reading the checksums themselves less frequent and easier to detect. No OCR is perfect so you may as well be prepared to deal with errors. Stephen