1. A document processing system for processing hardcopy documents, the system comprising: (i) a single manual inking/stamping device for simultaneously applying coordinated machine-readable data and human readable data to a hardcopy document to be processed in the document processing system; and (ii) a processing system, including human operators for employing manual operations and one or more computer processing systems for employing automated operations, wherein the machine-readable data comprise document-processing instruction(s) to be executed on the document provided as self-clocking glyph code; and the computer processing system is adapted to read the machine-readable data and to execute at least part of the document-processing instruction(s) automatically, and wherein the machine-readable data and the human readable data are arranged on the hardcopy document in proximity to each other so as to be recognizable as coming from the single device.