4 Mar
2010
4 Mar
'10
6:50 p.m.
Michael S. Hart wrote:
BB if it was realistic I would take you up on your bet. In 50 years their will not be a system finished that will do job of creating proper output anything above 95% fully automatically That is without any human interaction whatsoever..
_I_ will take that bet!!!
Even thought there are no realistic odds I will be here to collect.
I will be only too glad to have the proceeds go to PG, or In Memoriam.
The bet is that a Xerox machine type of scanning and OCR will produce a 95% accurate copy of certain pages selected from an average set of books, magazines, etc. Just go to a library and ask for samples.
Accuracy of OCR already exceeds 99%. Send me the money. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org