1. Apparatus for processing information from an original document containing document information on a first portion of the original document and a graphic symbol on a second portion of the original document physically separated from the first document portion, the graphical symbol encoding data representing the original document information, said apparatus comprising, in combination: a scanner/decoder for scanning the symbol to produce symbol data; a translator for translating the symbol data to document information data; means for converting the document information data into humanly intelligible information different in form from the document information; an editing system connected to receive the document information data from the translator and produce edited document information data; an edited document information data translator for translating the edited document information data to edited symbol data; and a printer for printing the edited document information data as edited document information on an edited document and printing the edited symbol data as an edited graphic symbol on the edited document at a single location disassociated from the edited document information printed on the edited document.
1. Apparatus for processing information from an original document containing document information on a first portion of the original document and a graphic symbol on a second portion of the original document physically separated from the first document portion, the graphical symbol encoding data representing the original document information, said apparatus comprising, in combination: a scanner/decoder for scanning the symbol to produce symbol data; a translator for translating the symbol data to document information data; means for converting the document information data into humanly intelligible information different in form from the document information; an editing system connected to receive the document information data from the translator and produce edited document information data; an edited document information data translator for translating the edited document information data to edited symbol data; and a printer for printing the edited document information data as edited document information on an edited document and printing the edited symbol data as an edited graphic symbol on the edited document at a single location disassociated from the edited document information printed on the edited document. 7. The apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein the original document is an authorization card, the document information is a representation of a signature of an authorized holder of the card, and said means for converting includes means for enabling a composition of the signature of the authorized holder of the card with a signature executed by a presenter of the card.