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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by carlosjobim on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:43PM (#46227403)
That doesn't make much sense, since a typewriter will neither type Calibri nor Times New Roman. And OCR should only be needed for type written documents, because any document made with Calibri or TNR is already digital.
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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by contact9879 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:08PM (#46227546)
printed documents, images, horribly inaccessible pdfs, horribly inaccessible websites
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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by carlosjobim on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:01AM (#46227862)
> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital.

> Images - Use the original, which is digital.

> horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF

> horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website.

A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.

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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by contact9879 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:14AM (#46227921)
an example from today (pdf warning): https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Aut...
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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by carlosjobim on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:24AM (#46233382)
God damn...

Why didn't they fax it back and forth a few times as well, just for good measure?

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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by contact9879 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:18AM (#46227938)
it's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these.

images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability

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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by carlosjobim on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:25AM (#46233409)
Images: use the original, which is a digital text document and not an image.

Unless they are making documents on typewriters. And in those cases neither Biden or Trump font is an option.

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Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri by funnybeam on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:24AM (#46228615)
We have a process at work where clients export information from their database as a pdf which they email to us so that we can ocr it and insert into our database.

No one else seems to think this is bat shit insane

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