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A system for processing coupons, documents, or the like including the assembling multiple encoding and decoding of coupons, or other documents requiring coding for the purpose of making the coupon uniquely identifiable and traceable. A machine encodes individual coupons or booklets or other document

A system for processing coupons, documents, or the like including the assembling multiple encoding and decoding of coupons, or other documents requiring coding for the purpose of making the coupon uniquely identifiable and traceable. A machine encodes individual coupons or booklets or other documents with a unique code, a subsequent machine reads the encoded coupon or booklet of coupons and applies additional information such as a person\s name and address, and another unique code to the coupon, coupon booklet or the like, and records all of this data in a computer master data base. The coupons, coupon booklets, or the like, are then issued to the person whose name appears on the document. After presentation of the coupon it is then decoded and compared to the master data base to validate it or cancel it, and can be stored for demographic or geographic analysis in the master data base. The system may be combined with a retail store\s automated system which reads the product information and calculates price after each coupon has been decoded. The computer compares the coupon to all purchases being made, and if there is a match of a presented coupon and an item purchased, the decoding machine validates the coupon and the store system then deducts the coupon credit from the presenter\s invoice.

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A method for producing trackable documents comprising the steps of: applying a unique code to each document; reading said unique code from each document and recording data representative of said code in a data base; assembling one or more documents into a package means; applying a person code to sai

A method for producing trackable documents comprising the steps of: applying a unique code to each document; reading said unique code from each document and recording data representative of said code in a data base; assembling one or more documents into a package means; applying a person code to said package means; and recording data representative of said person code in said data base in such a manner that it is associated with the data representative of said unique codes of the documents assembled in said package means, so that the unique code on a document can be used to identify uniquely the person code applied to the package means in which said document was assembled.