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I wonder if there's a font with the same idea of being easy to OCR. I mean something that one can write full pages of and be easy to read for both the human and
by jolmg 7y ago
I wonder if there's a font with the same idea of being easy to OCR. I mean something that one can write full pages of and be easy to read for both the human and the machine.
- mfkp 7y agoThat's probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B - developed in the 1960s. (OCR-A might be more common but I'd say less human readable).
- jolmg 7y agoInteresting. I was expecting something with more machine visual aids, like square markers to easily determine the start, size, and angle of the text. I wouldn't be able to guess that this font was designed for OCR. I wonder what design considerations they took. From the look at the applications, maybe they assumed perfect/consistent reading conditions, instead of e.g. a casual photo of the text with little consideration to alignment or using a prepared format.