Re: If human/machine discrimination is real.

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 05/30/03

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    In article <vldkq-adg.ln1@don.localnet>,
    Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote:
    >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?

    The subject of this thread is human/machine discrimination by requiring the
    human to read the image of some text. If you're doing it by email, you
    would not send it as ASCII. 

    -- 
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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