▲ | lisbbb 6 days ago | |
Back around, I don't even know, 2013? A colleague and I were working on updating a system that scanned in letters with mail order forms. The workers would lay the items from the envelopes in order on a conveyor type scanner. They had to lay them down in order: order form, payment check, envelope. The system would scan each document and add two blank fake scanned pages after each envelope. The company that set it up billed by scanned page. We figured out that you didn't need the blank pages as a delimiter because the envelope could reliably serve as that. By the way, the OCR was so bad that they never got the order forms to scan automatically, but people had to examine the order form as a pdf doc and key in everything instead. By eliminating the fake, nonsensical blank scanned pages, we saved the company over $1M/year in costs. We never got a single accolade or pat on the back or anything for that. Can AI do that, though? |