Sunday, 26 March 2017

OCR History: The Original Machine Learning

quote [ Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century’s great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type. ]
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:01amGMT]

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midden said[1] @ 1:26am GMT on 26th Mar
Interesting. I didn't know Frutiger had designed OCR-B, although I used it quite a bit in the 90s. I'm familiar with his other typefaces, but didn't know the connection.

By the way, looks like the source site, tedium.com, is down, so I looked at the cached version.
Bleb said @ 2:15am GMT on 26th Mar
The site looks like it's-- oh, cached version. Good call, midden.

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