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carlosjobimlast Thursday at 3:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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contact9879last Thursday at 4:08 AM

printed documents, images, horribly inaccessible pdfs, horribly inaccessible websites

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funnybeamlast Thursday at 7:24 AM

We 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