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		flukus on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial r... What sort of data entry? Seems like OCR/human combo would have been better.

cbhl on May 11, 2017 [–]

Data entry of all the addresses that the OCRs failed to read.

OCR was pretty bad back in 1995 (which is why the Palm Pilot had a special handwriting for users to learn).

See this NPR piece: http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132393643/Undeliverable-Mail-I...

Also "Act Three" of Episode 70 of "This American Life": https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/70/o...

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