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The document discusses challenges with optical character recognition including small text, numbers mixed with letters in various fonts, unusual fonts, and colored backgrounds and text.

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An Electronic Document

The document discusses challenges with optical character recognition including small text, numbers mixed with letters in various fonts, unusual fonts, and colored backgrounds and text.

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Himanshi Gupta
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Small Text
The contents of this paragraph are very small and can introduce issues with Traditional OCR Extraction Techniques.

Numbers mixed with letters

Sometimes where it is not clear if OCR is looking at a letter O or a 0 and the engine finds letters
mixed with numbers such as with an Invoice Number or ID for example, the OCR engine can some
times make mistakes, here are some examples:

AI01O87 – LLNNLNN
This is a number Zero (0)
A letter O (O)
A letter I (I)
A Number 1 (1)

Alternative font - Numbers mixed with letters

And again in a different font face:

AI01O87 – LLNNLNN
A letter O (O)
A letter I (I)
A Number 1 (1)

Unusual Font

The contents of this paragraph are written in a font that can introduce issues with
Traditional OCR Extraction Techniques.

Coloured Backgrounds and Text

The Text in this section uses multiple colours on top of a shaded background that can cause some
issues with traditional OCR Techniques.

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