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From: michael.brockington
Date: Jan 21, 2005 2:42AM

Glenda,
I (partially) agree with you. Clearly what you are talking about is related
to the article, though not directly.
However: as stated by myself and others, what would you do about it?

My model of the issue is:
Bank is providing a 'remote view' of a physical object that they hold.
The individual pieces of information on the cheque are mostly already
presented to the user, with the exception of:
Signature,
any over-stamps
The latter could also (theoretically) be OCR'd so that it could be presented
as a description.

However the primary reason that I would want to view a canceled cheque is so
that I could check that the amount had not been tampered with, and that the
signature was mine.
Can anyone explain how you would represent that textually?

To use an analogy, would you expect a computer system to be able to describe
the Mona Lisa, a Picasso self portrait, and a twelve-year-olds self-portrait,
and then even be able to distiguish between them, let alone appreciate the
relative 'quality' of the three?

Mike

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