Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 6, 2013 @12:47AM from the we-think-you-meant-9 dept.

First time accepted submitter sal_park writes "According to a report from German computer scientist D. Kriesel, some Xerox WorkCentre copiers and scanners may alter numbers that appear in scanned documents. Having analyzed the output of two such devices, the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556, Kriesel found that "patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way": in particular, some numbers appearing in a document may be replaced by other numbers when it is scanned."

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Re:oh man, what a mess by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-06 01:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

He said "ocr style" not "ocr". God damn you and everyone else who thinks your reading comprehension problem is someone else's mistake. Wastes so many posts.

Other posts are right there on your screen. You can read them ten times if that's what it takes for your stupid ass to comprehend what they do and don't say.

How's it feel to miss something that schoolchildren are expected to get right? Does it make you feel stupid? It should. It really should.