Good OCR programs (as in, the 6-700 dollars range) can recognize poor handwriting pretty well. Even the free stuff that comes with your scanner can do a pretty good job.
I think the bank checks and bar codes are not human readable because that would come with it's own share of counterfitting problems. Imagine what would happen if people could manually make bar codes or checks easily....
Not many people knows who Philo Farnsworth is. He invented the television, among other things.
RCA violated his patent, he sued, but ran out of money.
The best idea for an invention, code or otherwise, is to make the thing so complicated that nobody would be willing to figure it out, so if they wanted the goods, they would have to pay up. Or if the idea is not patentable, generate enough buzz, like cocacola, as mentioned.
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Good OCR programs (as in, the 6-700 dollars range) can recognize poor handwriting pretty well. Even the free stuff that comes with your scanner can do a pretty good job. I think the bank checks and bar codes are not human readable because that would come with it's own share of counterfitting problems. Imagine what would happen if people could manually make bar codes or checks easily....
Not many people knows who Philo Farnsworth is. He invented the television, among other things. RCA violated his patent, he sued, but ran out of money. The best idea for an invention, code or otherwise, is to make the thing so complicated that nobody would be willing to figure it out, so if they wanted the goods, they would have to pay up. Or if the idea is not patentable, generate enough buzz, like cocacola, as mentioned.