Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!linn@bbn-unix From: linn%bbn-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: OCR and Checks Message-ID: <1693@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 10:17:25 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1693 Posted: Thu Jun 2 10:17:25 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 15:40:00 EDT Lines: 9 From: John LinnA 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