Post #2461116
2026-02-06 03:24 UTC
I wonder if they gave considered crowdsourcing this, having many people type in small chunks of the data by hand, doing their own character recognition? Get enough people in and enough overlap and the process would have some built-in error correction.
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@apftwb@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 03:33
I mean the problem is that even with human eyes it's still really hard to tell l and 1 in that font. [See image](https://neosmart.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Scanned-1-vs-l-png.webp)