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Yes, OCR scanning is great, automagically converting some text such as, say "East 1/2 of No. 106" to such creative variations as the following, all of which appear in the same description now of record:
East V2 of No. 106 (I guess that's in the Peenemude Survey)
East '/2 of No. 106 (creative typography, I suppose)
East 'A of No. 106, (maybe a contraction of LA?)
East '/a of No. 106 (oh, it's algebra )
sort of like voice to text I swear sometimes my phone is just trying to make me crazy (er)
Kent McMillan, post: 438902, member: 3 wrote: East '/2 of No. 106 (creative typography, I suppose)
[SARCASM]Apostrophe divided by two equals umlaut. [/SARCASM]
Ah hell no! Point me to the books! I get flustered bad enough at the bad handwriting, I don't need a silly machine making things even worse!
Monte, post: 439133, member: 11913 wrote: Ah hell no! Point me to the books! I get flustered bad enough at the bad handwriting, I don't need a silly machine making things even worse!
What's even funnier is that the faulty OCR processing is how the metes and bounds description of the land subject of a Trespass to Try Title suit was apparently generated and - after some, but not enough, editing - cut-and-pasted into the petition. Naturally, the exact description of the land subject of the suit is one of the critical elements of the lawsuit, so a FUBAR description will get noticed.