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I am unaware that there is a bot that does any such thing on this website. On the assumption that you know something I don’t about it, however, it would use some form of digital character recognition.

Quoted from compton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

That’s something different (this is not optical).

Quoted from compton

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… read the first sentence in the article before correcting someone. Geez.

“Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.”

That’s not what this is. I repeat, this is not optical.

Quoted from compton

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There, I highlighted it for you. It says optical, but it is also used for electronic translation. Can you now please shut up about things you don’t know anything about?

Hahaha, you’re really funny. It says electronic translation, but it is translation of /optical/ materials. Last time I looked, jpeg images were not stored in light, they were stored in bits and bytes. This is not optical character recognition. That is digital character recognition.

I urge you to look up what ‘optical’ means.

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That’s because most of the material is gathered from scanners, translated into a digital format before the character recognition part. Still, the article is relevant because there doesn’t exist a term “DCR”. OCR technology is used for all character recognition, regardless of the source. The technology behind OCR works exactly the same.

So yeah, it’s not optical, but the article stays relevant. Now GTFO.

“OCR technology” does not exist, “pattern recognition technology” is what you’re talking about, and in that sense both PR and OCR are the same thing (which they aren’t, it would be like calling a diesel engine and a petrol engine the same thing). And the reason why DCR does not exist is because it isn’t called DCR, it is called pattern recognition.

I like the way you accuse me of not knowing what I’m talking about and then bring the conversation around to “actually I was wrong and it’s not optical at all but I’m going to bring it back on you”. Next time maybe check that you’re not going to say “actually I was wrong” before you make an attack on my technical knowledge in the areas of pattern recognition.

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“OCR technology” does not exist, “pattern recognition technology” is what you’re talking about, and in that sense both PR and OCR exist. And the reason why DCR does not exist is because it isn’t called DCR, it is called pattern recognition.

I like the way you accuse me of not knowing what I’m talking about and then bring the conversation around to “actually I was wrong and it’s not optical at all but I’m going to bring it back on you”. Next time maybe check that you’re not going to say “actually I was wrong” before you make an attack on my technical knowledge in the areas of pattern recognition.

I didn’t say it was optical at any point. I just pointed him to a relevant article of that describes the technology behind the bot. You really shouldn’t be talking to me, you should try talking to the people in Wikipedia to change the article’s name. See if they care about it.

edit: Okay, so Wikipedia is up again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition
Would your article have been more helpful?

Seems like OCR to me. The OCR systems that I have worked on previously have taken text data from a variety of image formats (including jpeg).

Internal combustion is the group of engines that both diesel and petrol engines belong to by the way.