I'm not sure I can sign on to this. In particular, this sounds kind of like an indictment of many algorithms. But, how many where there? And did any go on to

I'm not sure I can sign on to this. In particular, this sounds kind of like an indictment of many algorithms. But, how many where there? And did any go on to give good results? Considers, OCR was a very new field, such that a lot of the struggle was getting data into a place you could even try recognition against it. It should be no surprise that they were not able to succeed that often. It would be more surprising if they had a lot of different algorithms.