Name of paper storage program?
July 12, 2011 12:02 PM   Subscribe

There's a kind of 2D barcoding program that stores large amounts of compressed information on paper, like a QR code. What's it called?

I need to know what it's called. It's not Rainbow Storage, but it's kind of like that. If I recall correctly, it was monochrome and grid-based.

The article, as I remember it, said that it was specifically for archiving large quantities of information, and I think there was a freeware tool to use it linked on the page.
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PaperBack?
posted by mittens at 12:18 PM on July 12, 2011


Best answer: There are a lot of different 2D barcodes, where I found Twibright Optar, where Optar stands for OPTical ARchiver, which can even store recorded audio in a strictly visual format.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:37 PM on July 12, 2011 [2 favorites]


Xerox PARC has Dataglyphs.
posted by tommasz at 2:14 PM on July 12, 2011


How much data? Datamatrix will encode about 3K per patch, Pdf417 will encode a max of 1.8K per patch, but can be much less depending of how much error correction is in the patch.
posted by plinth at 5:45 PM on July 12, 2011


Response by poster: Thanks, light thief. That's what I remembered.

('Written language' would have been acceptable too, were I insufferable.)
posted by This, of course, alludes to you at 9:40 PM on July 12, 2011


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