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Xerox: First Wave Of Scanning Software Patches Ready
- brodney 13y agoWhat's the context around this? Is this a huge problem? It seems like it's just Xerox announcing a patch - rather mundane and routine.
- cypher543 13y agoThere was an article posted on HN a while ago about certain Xerox scanners that would change numbers on scanned documents (turn 6's into 8's, for example). So this is just a follow-up.
- ind_var 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
- drcode 13y agoHuge problem: The Xerox scanner software is doing fancy (but broken) AI/OCR-type stuff to compress images that sometimes replaces a perfectly normal number with different perfectly normal looking number in a way that defies belief.
- mikeash 13y agoOnce again, Xerox fails PR. Spend half your first paragraph blaming the customer and saying their concerns are not important, what could possibly go wrong? I continue to be amazed by their response to this serious problem.
- makomk 13y ago'when scanning “stress documents” to PDF—which can include very small font sizes, stray pixels and be difficult to read' That's some impressive wording there. It makes it sound like only documents which have very small font sizes and are difficult to read are affected, but it actually says the exact opposite - that the issue can affect documents with large, clear fonts and no stray pixels.