OCR "arms" > "anus"

[Benjamin Torbert]

This is making the rounds on Facebook, too.  So I guess it's, like, famous.


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

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> My mom heard about this on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," found the story,
> and passed it on. OCR software has trouble distinguishing "arms" from
> "anus" in older texts, yielding examples such as "crying for sheer joy
> as she took him in her anus."
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> www.theinternetpatrol.com/ocr-software-doesnt-know-its-anus-from-an-arm
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