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That's a cool idea. I was doing this in ~2008, and IIRC OCR was barely grabbing "ISBN" in 12pt Times on a white page, let alone RANDOM_FONT on a book spine. (U
by undoware 5y ago
That's a cool idea. I was doing this in ~2008, and IIRC OCR was barely grabbing "ISBN" in 12pt Times on a white page, let alone RANDOM_FONT on a book spine.
(Unrelatedly I also had a gig OCRing books for someone with a visual disability, which is where I got the idea.)
Today I work in the AI division of a major tech company and I can say with some confidence that you could absolutely OCR spines if your OCR platform is new enough :3