Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekecs!dce From: dce@tekecs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: OCR and Checks Message-ID: <1396@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 17:53:04 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.1396 Posted: Mon Jun 13 17:53:04 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 05:54:10 EDT References: sri-arpa.1979 Lines: 19 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