Finally, an excuse to relate an Acxiom anecdote! As a budding CS major I had a job with Acxiom. Most of it involved running phone books through sheet fed scan

Finally, an excuse to relate an Acxiom anecdote! As a budding CS major I had a job with Acxiom. Most of it involved running phone books through sheet fed scanners, collating a truly massive amount of publicly available information. A lot of work was done on a custom OCR engine to parse all of this data.