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JPEG Compression of Shakespeare
« on: June 21, 2013, 09:19:25 am »

This is an unusual way of showing how lossy compression can affect file content.
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Re: JPEG Compression of Shakespeare
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2013, 08:07:13 pm »

I find that demo quite jnseretyimg, oops! I mean, Interesting!

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Re: JPEG Compression of Shakespeare
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2013, 03:18:46 am »

It's quite droll. It demonstrates well that if you use the wrong tool for a job, you'll get bad results, which doesn't really come as a huge surprise.

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Re: JPEG Compression of Shakespeare
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2013, 05:45:39 pm »

I think it's most interesting in showing how easy it is to confuse OCR software. I suspect the human eye would do much better.
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