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Re:Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative by DannoHung on Monday July 27, 2015 @06:35PM (#9958448)
Seems like a more durable solution would be making an encoding of the alphabet that's easier for machines to read.
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Re:Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative by jen729w on Monday July 27, 2015 @06:48PM (#9958503)
Like the one we've used on bank cheques* for all of time

MICR E13-B: http://www.micr-fonts.com/MICRfont/micrfont.html

(*British. <grin>)

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Re:Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative by DannoHung on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:01AM (#9959443)
I meant one that could be created by hand, but that works for ones made by printer.
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Re:Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative by eru on Monday July 27, 2015 @10:33PM (#9959216)
Or on snail mail.
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Re:Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative by mgold on Monday July 27, 2015 @06:46PM (#9958500)
Morse code, alpha bravo charlie, ASCII... there's actually a long history of doing this. Maybe not one meant for easy of memorization and drawing though. Even Mark Whatney had to be taught Morse code on Mars.

(Yes the phonetic alphabet is meant for ease of hearing by people, but writing a program to understand 26 distinct sounds can't be nearly as hard as natural language transcription.)

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