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>The OCR has a reproducible bug and has trouble differentiating small l and the number 1. It also has trouble differentiating the number 0 and the small o. Inst
by taurath 10y ago
>The OCR has a reproducible bug and has trouble differentiating small l and the number 1. It also has trouble differentiating the number 0 and the small o. Instead of fixing the bug or not using such obviously unsuitable software the software apparently evaluates the following characters - if there is a number after the small l it reads the l as the number 1. Similar issues with o/0.
So what they're saying is y0u can fo0l their servers with 1eetspeak?
- darklajid 10y agoI mean - these 'fixes' are common as far as I can tell (working in/around OCR). But then again - I'm not issuing certificates. Quite often you try to eliminate uncertainty by being clever: Sure, OCR engine: Go ahead and recognize O and l and B if you want. If I know that the context of this text is an amount, I'll still replace those chars with 0 and 1 and 8 afterwards. (Engines usually allow you to configure the allowed character set, but in practice it seems to be easier/more reliable to work like a parser: Lenient in what you accept and strict in what you pass on)
- siculars 10y agoYou intervene with humans when you detect /1io0/i.
- emodendroket 10y agoI'm always amazed at how many Kindle books you buy have clearly not gone through a simple spell check to catch errors like these.
- thebakeshow 10y agoDid you mean l33t5p4ak?