For amusing, yeah. I did data entry for a short period of time, and I wanted to speed up my work by scanning the page full of numbers, running it through OCR. It is amazing how many errors there were! Finally, I quit doing that, because even with a single error, I had to double check each number on the list, and I wasted more time trying to find the errors than entering them one by one. So, I learned that OCR is very prone to errors. It converts number 8s to 0s, and 0s become 8s. And it often mixes up 1s, 2s and 7s and sometimes 3s and 8s. It was extremely rare where it got all numbers correct on a page. The simplest errors were when it converted the numbers "6" to "C" or "G" but that was quite easy to fix, because on a page full of numbers you can easily spot a letter. lol

In reply to Re^3: OCRing out the Digits by harangzsolt33
in thread OCRing out the Digits by adamcrussell

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