My PHYS341 students were interested to see how the OCR routine processed their attendance sheet, so I applied it, as shown below.

The left panel shows the original, the right the transformed version. The routine did a reasonable job of un-distorting the page (although it wasn’t too bad to begin with).

And here’s what the routine returns as text:

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Qfick ${‘bt\L . .
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V.o\3 \3<<I°\Ser&eck
jengifcr Brigga
}VK°'('3E\V1c-rad LULAA
Mby Ouersfreci’ '
Tm (jivws ‘
gj)/VIOI/I  ‘
$030-4 “10u\J ‘
{NC /I/1a.V,,,,',q '
O”AKe So/ares
Skwm \<reyc}~e '

…not great.

I’m not totally sure what went wrong. Maybe I should have them write their student numbers instead.

UPDATE: 2016 Feb 5

Here’s another go with a different attendance sheet. Not much better.

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94% \5<<k*?l6<:x\.cLl¢ Jennifer BH995 N\o+‘\'V\c\.6 Luv\0\ . \/\0\\)y 0\,ers+reeJr ’\".m C"\\/Ens _ 51 m cm E 1: Y Jason May A ZPM > M
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