Re: If human/machine discrimination is real.

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:32:31 -0400

On 29 May 2003 19:31:13 GMT, Huge
  <huge@ukmisc.org.uk> wrote:
> Sasha <spamit@yahoo.com> writes:
>>huge@ukmisc.org.uk (Huge) writes:
>>> >So, what is my mistake?
>>> OCR is not as easy as you believe.
>>Real OCR is usually hard because there are many (and usually
>>unknown) fonts (or even handwritten). Here the font is the
>>same. In many cases it is even monospace (like courier), so
>>the position of each symbol is fixed.
>
> The only examples I have seen are from Yahoo mail accounts, where none
> of the things you state are true.
>
OCR in email is kind of pointless, because the text of the message is
already in ASCII, unless the message is handwritten and scanned, and
who sends email that way? 

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