[Image-SIG] Hard to OCR Font

Matthias Urlichs smurf at smurf.noris.de
Fri Apr 16 04:15:42 EDT 2004


Hi,

Marilyn Davis:
> Now that I have PIL going, I need to find a "hard to OCR" font.
> 
> Can anyone provide suggestions or clues?  What makes a font hard to
> OCR?

fractured or stencilled letters, being slanted, wavy, on a curved
baseline, or otherwise distorted; run a few lines through the text,
print two words "almost" on top of each other so that the letters touch,
... you get the idea.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
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