From: Ellen K. 

Yes, and George's description of why OCR has more problems with random
combinations of characters (regardless of whether they are alpha or
numeric) sounds similar.

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:53:10 -0800, Alan Cairns
 wrote in message
:

>On 29/2/04 6:41 PM, in article vj8540ltumcmarn7ecvuv4j3ph4vo9f1u7{at}4ax.com,
>"Ellen K."  wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>There's a lot of processing goes on in the retina even before the pictures
>go to the brain. The retina is very good at pattern recognition.
>
>Alan

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