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Thread: All hail OCR!
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Oscar the Grouch
Adopted Cascadian
# 1916
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I have an OCR program on my computer. Occasionally, I have need to scan a paper document and run it through the OCR program to get the text. Of course, the OCR program is not 100% perfect - especially if the text being scanned is small and in italics.
Recently I scanned a document that contained the phrase "Encourage and praise."
Imagine my reaction when the OCR program turned this into "Encourage anal praise."
This lightened up my day considerably.
Quite apart from wondering what "anal praise" might look like, I wonder if anyone else has an OCR generated beauty they have experienced.
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Faradiu, dundeibáwa weyu lárigi weyu
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
# 5528
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We had an anti-Christian OCR apparently. In roughly a million tries, it never, ever got the word "Lord" right. Which led to such gems as "Praise the Lion," "our help is in the name of the Loan," and "the Loin is my delight."
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
"the Loin is my delight."
Perhaps it is a mind reader.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Albertus
Shipmate
# 13356
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...as long as it's not coupled with anal praise, I hope
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Aelred of Riveaux
Shipmate
# 12833
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quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
"our help is in the name of the Loan,"
Maybe it was a pro payday loans OCR.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
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"Praise the Lion"? Clearly, designed by a Narnian! w00t!
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
# 6075
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Or a Rastafarian. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Sandemaniac
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
Quite apart from wondering what "anal praise" might look like, I wonder if anyone else has an OCR generated beauty they have experienced.
Sadly not, but it does remind me of the early Word spellchecker that insisted on altering every occurrence of "Latvia" (in an essay on agriculture in said country, so there were quite a few) to "Labia".
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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