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by emanday » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:29 pm
I wonder if you are aware that OCR is used by some survey companies?
We've all seen the ones that you tick a box from a choice. Well, there is a reason why they usually ask that you use a black pen! It's so that the scanner picks them all up! The bits where you are asked to "comment" are also scanned and the OCR "interpretation" is used to flag returns where certain words, or groups of words appear.
Talk about the machine age

[b]Mary[/b]
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