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Link on that, as OCR should be more reliable with Times New Roman due to significant serifs.
by blueflow 10mo ago
Link on that, as OCR should be more reliable with Times New Roman due to significant serifs.
- papercrane 10mo agoThe memo at the time said the serifs can cause OCR issues. https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232 https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232
- opo 10mo agoJust because they claimed it, doesn't make it true. OCR and screen reader software in 2023 did not have problems with serifs.
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- orwin 10mo agoI don't have link on that, but the main difficulty with OCR isn't the OCR part (not anymore at least), it's the "clean up" part, and serifs are a pain in the ass, especially on sightly crumpled paper. My use case was an ERP plugin that digitalized and read to receipt to autofill reimbursement demands, and since most receipt use sans-serif fonts, it was mostly fine, but some jokers use serifed font (mostly on receipts you get when using cash, not credit card receipts) and the error rate jumped from like 1% to 13% (not sure about the 1%, it might be a story i told myself to make me feel better, it was a decade ago, before i pivoted to network from AI. I always take the best decision it seems)
- nerevarthelame 10mo agoI don't know what studies Blinken's State Department considered, but here are 2 studies on the matter. https://www.academia.edu/72263493/Effect_of_Typeface_Design_Features_on_Legibility_and_OCR https://www.academia.edu/72263493/Effect_of_Typeface_Design_...: "For Latin, it was observed that individual letters with serif cause misclassification on (b,h), (u,n), (o,n), (o,u)." https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10220037 https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10220037: [Figure 5 shows higher accuracy for the two sans-serif fonts, Arial and DejaVu compared to Times New Roman, across all OCR engines]