[Elsie]

Answer: the only reason anyone would do an OCR scan of a formatted document is to insert fake data different from the original form.

Huh?

OCR is used when trying to capture a LOT of data.

It is NOT used when trying to figure out when a small amount of data is hard to decipher by the human eye.

Besides; why decipher it if you are inserting FAKE data anyway??

[higgmeister]

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is used to digitize the typed or written text so that it can be manipulated by a data processor.

In the last election our ballots were fed into an OCR optical scanner so that the Democrat contracted election software could manipulate the data and steal our election.

An official document should only be copied "as is", not digitized and manipulated.

As a side note, when I was stationed at MacDill AFB in 1980 I participated in a trial program to determine the feasibility of transmitting our daily 55-1 Report to the Defense Communication Agency using the new technology from 3C Corporation for formatted OCR scanning.   As such I was one of the first people alive to see OCR used in a practical application.