9 APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING, ENCODING, AND TRANSMITTING DATA VIA NETWORKS, NAMELY, DATA COMPRESSORS, DATA ENCODER/DECODERS AND MODEMS; SOFTWARE RECORDED ON CD-ROM IN THE FIELD OF DATA, IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA FILE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE RECORDED ON CD-ROM IN THE FIELD OF DOCUMENT PROCESSING; SOFTWARE RECORDED ON CD-ROM IN THE FIELD OF DATA, IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA FILE COMPRESSION; SOFTWARE RECORDED ON CD-ROM IN THE FIELD OF FILE ACCESS AND SECURITY; SOFTWARE RECORDED ON CD-ROM, NAMELY, SEARCH ENGINE SOFTWARE; BLANK CD-ROMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR GENERAL PURPOSE DATABASE MANAGEMENT, FOR READING DOCUMENTS, FOR DOCUMENT RECOGNITION AND CHARACTERIZATION, FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION, AND FOR DOCUMENT INDEXING; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION OF DATA, IMAGES, AND VIDEO; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR FILE AND INFORMATION ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR COMPRESSION OF DATA, IMAGES AND VIDEO; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR CAPTURE, DELIVERY, MANAGEMENT, DISPLAY, AND PROCESSING OF IMAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR CAPTURE, DELIVERY, MANAGEMENT, PLAYING/DISPLAY AND PROCESSING OF MULTIMEDIA FILES