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That doesn't make much sense, since a typewriter will neither type Calibri nor Times New Roman. And OCR should only be needed for type written documents, becaus
by carlosjobim 11mo ago
That doesn't make much sense, since a typewriter will neither type Calibri nor Times New Roman. And OCR should only be needed for type written documents, because any document made with Calibri or TNR is already digital.
- contact9879 11mo agoprinted documents, images, horribly inaccessible pdfs, horribly inaccessible websites
- carlosjobim 11mo ago> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital. > Images - Use the original, which is digital. > horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF > horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website. A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.
- contact9879 11mo agoan example from today (pdf warning): https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Authorization%20Act.pdf https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Aut...
- carlosjobim 11mo agoGod damn... Why didn't they fax it back and forth a few times as well, just for good measure?
- contact9879 11mo agoit's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these. images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability
- carlosjobim 11mo agoImages: use the original, which is a digital text document and not an image. Unless they are making documents on typewriters. And in those cases neither Biden or Trump font is an option.
- funnybeam 11mo agoWe have a process at work where clients export information from their database as a pdf which they email to us so that we can ocr it and insert into our database. No one else seems to think this is bat shit insane