Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed which are useful in rapidly verifying a person's identity at a distance, and/or identifying a person with a high degree of certitude, from a pool of other persons, using an innovative technique to compare facial images. Such a person (Candidate) may voluntarily consent or cooperate to have his facial image recorded, or the Candidate's facial image may have been recorded involuntarily. Typically, an image recorded for identification purposes will be a facial image of a Candidate present before a camera or other image procuring device, to be compared with a previously stored Reference facial image, as in a building lobby, for identification purposes. The Candidate's facial image is recorded voluntarily but the Reference image is not in the Candidate's possession.

Abstract: A business form which is configured to cooperate with conventional facsimile machines to minimize the amount of time required to transmit a document includes vertical lines which are broken to extend only partially along the document, rather than extending continuously along the document as was previously conventional. Such discontinuous lines leave open spaces which can take advantage of the ability of a conventional facsimile machine to operate at a faster rate for blank (open) areas than the rate which is normally encountered for "populated" (marked) areas of the document, reducing the overall transmission rate for a given document.