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Did you try a search-and-replace in Word, changing the problem characters to something else? e.g. 0123456789ABCDEF 012345M7XPAVKHEF
by Symbiote 2y ago
Did you try a search-and-replace in Word, changing the problem characters to something else?
e.g.
0123456789ABCDEF
012345M7XPAVKHEF
- remram 2y agoThat's brilliant! You could even expand each input character to multiple characters to build an error correcting code.
- tfvlrue 2y agoNope! That's a good idea though. The transcription errors I was getting were not consistent. Like, D would be O or 0 or D, with no apparent rhyme or reason to it. And the turnaround time on each fax attempt was long enough that I focused on doing the image recognition myself instead.
- 1-more 2y agoThis was a phenomenal effort and such a joy to read. Based on how much work this was, these were probably some very important sound files that mean a lot to someone in your family, so thanks for your hard work getting them off the laptop. My goofy idea was using the font OCR-A but you'd be very lucky if that Mac came with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A