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From: linn%bbn-unix@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  OCR and Checks
Message-ID: <1693@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 10:17:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  2 10:17:25 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 15:40:00 EDT
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From:  John Linn 

A rumor/anecdote about the use of OCR in a realm wider than the bottom
of checks: I've been told that OCR is one of the few type fonts which
postal automated sorting equipment is entirely incapable of processing!
Apparently, it is in some sense so unlike other fonts that its use
on an envelope forces a person, rather than a machine, to scan it.

--jl