[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Margaret McGaley]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:27:52PM -0000, Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a scanner that came with OCR software? Give it a whirl
> with a sheet of numbers that you write out by hand. I think you might be
> surprised at how accurate it is.
> 

Digits have to be the most difficult thing to OCR in handwriting. Similarities
between some people's '1's and others' '7's are the perfect example. There's
also 6/0, 6/8, 3/8, 2/7. And there's no opportunity to train the system with
every voter's handwriting.

Margaret

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