I can imagine generating a few pages or even an entire book of this, and some future generations attempting to figure out what sort of language it was written in... reminds me of this:
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#12What (if anything) is this saying about the quality of the OCR process? Especially since none of these seem human readable.
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#13I was thinking about this: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
Thats nice, thank you for the link!
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#14Perhaps this could lead to a new kind of captcha that only bots can solve. I doubt it would be efficient, though.
Bot Honeypot
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#15This could be a cool way to visually "encrypt" messages. They're readable, but only by the correct tool. I wonder how these squiggles might be creatively arranged steganographicly in an image and still be "read" by the OCR tool.
QR code?
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#16I think one of the problems is that the OCR assumes the images to be (English) letters.
To be really really useful, the OCR would need to consider at least all characters in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. And then it needs to be able to reject an image as containing any word, and then it needs to solve the halting problem.
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#17Perhaps this could lead to a new kind of captcha that only bots can solve. I doubt it would be efficient, though.
... that's a pretty interesting idea!
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#18Not strictly related, but reminded me of the exercise in genetic programming by Roger Alsing: http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut...
It's a rather cool attempt to draw the Mona Lisa using random, semi-transparent polygons
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#20Perhaps this could lead to a new kind of captcha that only bots can solve. I doubt it would be efficient, though.
If a correct answer is given, presume it's a bot.