On: Reverse OCR

[bmh100]

This actually seems like a great program for automatically generating adversarial examples to improve OCR. A human could rate this text as being illegible or legible. Each example can then be added to the training data to improve its quality.

[mng2 → bmh100]

The Letter Spirit project (a Douglas Hofstadter thing) is sort of in that vein, but less prosaic in its objectives.