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From: dce@tekecs.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  OCR and Checks
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 17:53:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 17:53:04 1983
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When I worked at Record Bar, we used OCR for printing labels
for albums, scanning labels that came off sold albums, and
using the data for orders. This is a pretty fast way of entering
order information, at least it's a lot faster than keypunching
all of that data in.

The problems we had were :

	1. Requires very good OCR printers.
	2. Data pages must be aligned almost perfectly.
	3. Programming a scanner is very hard.
	4. Requires operator to help the scanner out when it gets
		confused.
	5. Drives aforementioned operator insane (we went through
		3 operators in a year)

but overall, the results were pretty good.

			David