Okay so for the record I hope this gives us joy but want to make sure we don't get caught up in OCR buzzacronyms.
Ocr is just scanbing a document and there is some algorithm that finds text boxes on a pdf and tags them so the text is re encoded and is searchable. It's available on almost any scanner or printer that anyone can buy. My only point is the dedicate that OCR isn't some super secret tech term. It's just meaning that all ballots can be searchable by keyword searches, which would come in handy for the auditors.
I don't think so. OCR, optical character recognition, is about turning a pixel region into text. My guess is that the ballot reader was reading the filled in bubbles, which I'm pretty sure would not use OCR. If the ballot is misaligned then where the scanner is looking for bubbles will most likely be off and thus the bubbles won't be read properly. Really nothing to do with OCR.
I think that the person that wrote this OP text, whoever they may be, are talking about the work that Jovan Pulitzer is doing at the AZ audit. He has the tech to forensically examine these hard copy ballots.
Okay so for the record I hope this gives us joy but want to make sure we don't get caught up in OCR buzzacronyms.
Ocr is just scanbing a document and there is some algorithm that finds text boxes on a pdf and tags them so the text is re encoded and is searchable. It's available on almost any scanner or printer that anyone can buy. My only point is the dedicate that OCR isn't some super secret tech term. It's just meaning that all ballots can be searchable by keyword searches, which would come in handy for the auditors.
I don't think so. OCR, optical character recognition, is about turning a pixel region into text. My guess is that the ballot reader was reading the filled in bubbles, which I'm pretty sure would not use OCR. If the ballot is misaligned then where the scanner is looking for bubbles will most likely be off and thus the bubbles won't be read properly. Really nothing to do with OCR.
I think that the person that wrote this OP text, whoever they may be, are talking about the work that Jovan Pulitzer is doing at the AZ audit. He has the tech to forensically examine these hard copy ballots.