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by Symbiote 745 days ago
Did you try a search-and-replace in Word, changing the problem characters to something else?

e.g.

  0123456789ABCDEF
  012345M7XPAVKHEF
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remram 744 days ago
That's brilliant! You could even expand each input character to multiple characters to build an error correcting code.
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tfvlrue 745 days ago
Nope! That's a good idea though.

The transcription errors I was getting were not consistent. Like, D would be O or 0 or D, with no apparent rhyme or reason to it. And the turnaround time on each fax attempt was long enough that I focused on doing the image recognition myself instead.

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1-more 744 days ago
This was a phenomenal effort and such a joy to read. Based on how much work this was, these were probably some very important sound files that mean a lot to someone in your family, so thanks for your hard work getting them off the laptop.

My goofy idea was using the font OCR-A but you'd be very lucky if that Mac came with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A

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