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Old 10-26-2005, 05:35 PM   #5
cervezas
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Xerox just announced a breakthrough that purports to turn your mobile phone into a scanner with OCR running on a backend server.
Here's the link I forgot to give to an article about Xerox's software for cleaning up and compressing these otherwise poor camphone images and making them suitable as inputs to optical character recognition algorithms.

The devil is in the details with this, as anyone who has used OCR knows. Just how accurate will this be?
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