{"id":8296,"date":"2019-01-20T04:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2019-01-20T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:15:58","slug":"does-your-ocr-see-names-where-there-are-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8296","title":{"rendered":"Does Your OCR See Names Where There are None?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCR searches of digitized images do not actually &#8220;read&#8221; the images. They look at the individual pixels on the image and, based on algorithms created from &#8220;typical&#8221; images, they text is &#8220;read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time that works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8299\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-38.png 776w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-38-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image-38-768x460.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/>Then sometimes it finds names on people&#8217;s heads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCR searches of digitized images do not actually &#8220;read&#8221; the images. They look at the individual pixels on the image and, based on algorithms created from &#8220;typical&#8221; images, they text is &#8220;read.&#8221; Most of the time that works. Then sometimes it finds names on people&#8217;s heads. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}