6 Mail Sorting
n the last few chapters, you’ve been training a computer to recognize images. There are lots of useful jobs that computers can help us do if they know how to see. One such job, optical character recognition (OCR), is when a computer is able to recognize a picture of a letter or number after it has seen lots of examples of that character.
A computer trained to do OCR can read the printed words in newspapers and books.
When combined with a text-to-speech system that can read the recognized words out loud, OCR is used to help ...
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