Marcello don't you ever READ anything before replying???!!! Still???!!! "In 50 years there will NOT be as system. . .above 95%. . ." I took that bet, betting there WILL be. . .SHOW ME THE MONEY!!! How do you expect anyone to EVER take you seriously when you do this kind of thing over, and over, and over. . .???!!! On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
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.