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Interesting, though data entry feels like something that should have been automated (even if source is paper).
by Aperocky 5y ago
Interesting, though data entry feels like something that should have been automated (even if source is paper).
- somethingwitty1 5y agoYou'd be amazed how much cheaper it is to have a human do it than pay for automation. But also, law/contract required the data to be accurate (so there were 3 people, at minimum, entering the exact same data and records would be flagged if any of the 3 did not match). OCR, at the time (and even now), is highly unreliable with human handwriting. Not that I disagree with your statement, automation would have been nice. And though I like to think we want humans doing higher-level things, a lot of the people there were happy to get decent pay and not have to think for their day job.