From: Ellen K. 

You might be right there.

I wonder if human eyes work the same... I mean, I am at the age where I
can't read eensy-teensy print any more... but if it's words I can still
usually make something out, whereas if it's numbers, forget it.   It's
like they wiggle when I look at them or something.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:11:22 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in message :

>It's less reliable if it's not scanning words from a paragraph of text where
>it can use sentence structure and a dictionary to correct itself. Give it a
>list of part numbers consisting of nothing but letters that make no valid
>words and it won't do any better than it does with alphanumerics.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
>news:q17r30dgev3lhunp2f3jp05ns2vb3n5l4r{at}4ax.com...
>> In general, OCR is less reliable for numbers than for letters...
>> depending on the fidelity of the scanned image I wouldn't be surprised
>> if it mixes up 5 and 6 or 6 and 8 or 8 and 9.
>

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