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Recently, Eye became sophisticated enough to recognize an example of real scanned text with only a few errors - well enough to consider this a success. The scan quality in this example is very good which allows employing a two-stage approach: segment first (separate letters from each other), then recognize each letter individually.

Now I'm moving on to a harder example. This one has low resolution, is blurred and letters are very close to each other. A classical segment-then-recognize process is likely to fail here as it is hard to tell letters apart without putting in some knowledge about what is a letter and what is not.... read more