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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by flukus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:39AM (#14313855)
What sort of data entry? Seems like OCR/human combo would have been better.
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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by cbhl on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:04AM (#14313947)
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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