Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Bail-In the anchor
What happens when a thoroughly modern OCR system meets a hundred-year-old text?
I was scanning for more pix of old printing equipment, and found this:
Bail-In!
Interestingly, this term is NOT common in the Imperial Media that Google News exclusively presents. It's only common in fact-loving econ blogs, which Google's aggregator rejects as tinfoil. Maybe the aggregator has a secret tinfoil jones?
How did this happen?
Here's the original.
Google's OCR says:
The Anchor Press, Detroit -- This company's house organ, the Anchor ... 7a: Bail-In! who employ dulled am In Aldus Manutius The Story of the Anchor as an Emblem Asnv min was juq beginning to the, in the world of printing at the tune that
This company's house organ, the Anchor comes from top of main column correctly.
Then OCR tried to read the small left paragraphs; couldn't read anything until it found Build! which turned into Bail-In!
Builders who employ skilled amateurs turned into who employ dulled am
Then OCR gave up on the left paras and skipped to the main part again, where
A new star was just beginning to shine in the world of printing at the time that
became
Asnv min was juq beginning to the, in the world of printing at the tune that
Bail-In!
Interestingly, this term is NOT common in the Imperial Media that Google News exclusively presents. It's only common in fact-loving econ blogs, which Google's aggregator rejects as tinfoil. Maybe the aggregator has a secret tinfoil jones?
How did this happen?
Here's the original.
Google's OCR says:
The Anchor Press, Detroit -- This company's house organ, the Anchor ... 7a: Bail-In! who employ dulled am In Aldus Manutius The Story of the Anchor as an Emblem Asnv min was juq beginning to the, in the world of printing at the tune that
This company's house organ, the Anchor comes from top of main column correctly.
Then OCR tried to read the small left paragraphs; couldn't read anything until it found Build! which turned into Bail-In!
Builders who employ skilled amateurs turned into who employ dulled am
Then OCR gave up on the left paras and skipped to the main part again, where
A new star was just beginning to shine in the world of printing at the time that
became
Asnv min was juq beginning to the, in the world of printing at the tune that
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