Optical scanning systems have a 98% accuracy rate, which means an unacceptable 40 errors per page.

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In Duval County, 7 of 15 optical scanning machines used to count ballots had to be replaced, the newspaper reported.

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It designed optical scanning software that can tell when a book page is creased and correct it on the fly.

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Gov. Crist said he wants to get rid of all those touch-screen machines and replace them with optical scanning systems that would read paper ballots.

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Brass said ePaper, albeit not specifying whether it would be a product or a set of technologies, will address how users live electronically with paper, and would include better scanning and optical character recognition.

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In a room down the corridor, several people are hard at work scanning barcodes from stacks of documents with an optical character reader.

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