On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Damien Morton wrote: > OCR is hard OCR is hard mostly because of the analog components (and the variety of fonts that exist). If you are generating the image digitally (and with a limited set of fonts), most of the OCR problems go away.
> Some examples of reverse turing tests. (http://www.captcha.net/) It appears that each of those introduces non ADA compliant aspects. The first and third can be defeated with a database no larger than that needed to implement it, the third is unlikely to work on many platforms (audio dependancies kept it from working for me), and the fourth I couldn't even figure out as a human--not what we're looking for. > Between an audio test and a visual test, you've got the blind and the > deaf covered. And you've introduced lots of browser/platform dependancies that mean you can't use new low-bandwidth platforms, like WAP. -Dale _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
