[jbondeson]

Excellent. It's a little funny how when you start problems like these you start becoming an expert in fields you never thought you'd have to play in like color spaces, color perception theory, etc.

Great work, and I look forward to seeing future posts on the solutions you've been able to come up with!

[msandford]

Yeah, I got a serious education doing this for mail items. And I had it easier as I was able to control the background and lighting and camera and everything.

Well, I couldn't control the autofocus very well, going from a $500 DSLR to a $1200 DSLR made HUGE gains since it'd have far, far more autofocus points.

I was really interested in the text output of the OCR that I later did (which was a treat in itself since mail has so many different fonts, even on the same item!). I learned a lot about a lot of things too.