True story.

[kobymu]

So, a friend of mine calls me and asked me if i dont mind helping a friend of him with a computer related problem on the phone.i said sure. after a couple of minute my phone rang and it want like so...

me: hello?

caller: hi, are you xxxxx?

me: yes, you have a problem with you'r computer?

caller: no, with my printer, its not printing.

me: hmmm... did you check if the printer in turned on?

caller: yes, i pushed the botton and it maked a sound and there is green light next to it.

me: ok, did you put some paper in paper tray?

caller: yes, i fallowed the manual and placed some paper in the paper trey.

me: ok, are there any flashing lighes on the printer?

caller: no.

me: from where are you trying to print?

caller: hmmm, what do you mean? i have the pages i want to print in the secound place for paper in printer. i press the botton and noting happens.

me: hmmm, are you trying to print or to copy ?


caller: print.

me: so, where are you trying to print from?

caller: from the printer.

me: hmmm, no, i mean, hmmmm, ok, from which software are you trying to print?

caller: software!?

me: software, application, arrrr, in you'r computer.

caller: computer?! what computer? i dont have a computer.

me:

.......


WTF?!?!?!?

 

[KLin]

stupid users :roll:

 

[DaTT]

Shens!

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: DaTT
Shens!

 

[dighn]

maybe he's got one of those copier/fax machine/printer all-in-one machines?

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: DaTT
Shens!

Indeed. :roll:

 

[kobymu]

Originally posted by: dighn
maybe he's got one of those copier/fax machine/printer all-in-one machines?

no, the "pages i want to print...." was some hand writing papers

he thought that all he had to do is buy a printer and it will print it :|

 

[kobymu]

bump for more comments

 

Charge him $150 for your time.

 

[moshquerade]

so he wants to make copies?

 

[kobymu]

i felt bad for him
beeing stupid is one thing
but ripping off stupid ppl is another thing

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
so he wants to make copies?

I believe what the guy wanted was to make PRINTED copies of his HANDWRITTEN papers. I do believe that there is software out there that takes scans of writing and will try to convert it to text. I think you generally have to program them by writing the alphabet, scanning it, and telling the program which letters are which. This way it "knows" your handwriting. Of course this is software, which requires a computer, which he doesn't have.

And if that software doesn't exist, then it needs to.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Charge him $150 for your time.

:thumbsup:

 

[Calin]

Such a software might exist, but its chances of correct recognition are pretty slim. That kind of software works best with "receive as you write" (like in touchpads) media, and much worse on already written texts. Also, they work well on Capitals and less well on minuscule letters, and they don't work as well on handwritting.
and there are some people that write so bad that humans cannot understand the writing:
http://www.resursadefun.ro/gi28_marean.htm

Translation:
Vanghelie's writting is worse than its talking!

Under this title, weekly magazine "Catavencu Academy" published this week the image of the declaration of accepting the candidature to the Bucharest Mayor Office of the Mayor of the 5th Sector bla bla bla.

After the image is the text you should find on the picture. Good luck!

 

[bret]

rofl copter

 

[cbehnken]

Originally posted by: Calin
Such a software might exist, but its chances of correct recognition are pretty slim. That kind of software works best with "receive as you write" (like in touchpads) media, and much worse on already written texts. Also, they work well on Capitals and less well on minuscule letters, and they don't work as well on handwritting.
and there are some people that write so bad that humans cannot understand the writing:
http://www.resursadefun.ro/gi28_marean.htm

Translation:
Vanghelie's writting is worse than its talking!

Under this title, weekly magazine "Catavencu Academy" published this week the image of the declaration of accepting the candidature to the Bucharest Mayor Office of the Mayor of the 5th Sector bla bla bla.

After the image is the text you should find on the picture. Good luck!

You've never heard of OCR software? It's been out for ages.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: kobymu

caller: software!?

me: software, application, arrrr, in you'r computer.

caller: computer?! what computer? i dont have a computer.

me:

.......


WTF?!?!?!?

HAHAHAHAHAHA. oh man thats good!! :laugh::laugh:

 

[kobymu]

Originally posted by: Aharami

HAHAHAHAHAHA. oh man thats good!! :laugh::laugh:

that remines me of joke

customer: my computer cup holder is broken, what do i do?

helpdesk: go to you'r closest computer shop and ask for a new CD-ROM

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: cbehnken

Originally posted by: Calin
Such a software might exist, but its chances of correct recognition are pretty slim. That kind of software works best with "receive as you write" (like in touchpads) media, and much worse on already written texts. Also, they work well on Capitals and less well on minuscule letters, and they don't work as well on handwritting.
and there are some people that write so bad that humans cannot understand the writing:
http://www.resursadefun.ro/gi28_marean.htm

Translation:
Vanghelie's writting is worse than its talking!

Under this title, weekly magazine "Catavencu Academy" published this week the image of the declaration of accepting the candidature to the Bucharest Mayor Office of the Mayor of the 5th Sector bla bla bla.

After the image is the text you should find on the picture. Good luck!

You've never heard of OCR software? It's been out for ages.

Take a look at the attached picture. OCR software will correctly identify maybe one letter out of every 100

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: cbehnken

Originally posted by: Calin
Such a software might exist, but its chances of correct recognition are pretty slim. That kind of software works best with "receive as you write" (like in touchpads) media, and much worse on already written texts. Also, they work well on Capitals and less well on minuscule letters, and they don't work as well on handwritting.
and there are some people that write so bad that humans cannot understand the writing:
http://www.resursadefun.ro/gi28_marean.htm

Translation:
Vanghelie's writting is worse than its talking!

Under this title, weekly magazine "Catavencu Academy" published this week the image of the declaration of accepting the candidature to the Bucharest Mayor Office of the Mayor of the 5th Sector bla bla bla.

After the image is the text you should find on the picture. Good luck!

You've never heard of OCR software? It's been out for ages.

Yeah, I used to use OCR with a fax software that would try to convert pages received from my fax to doc files. This was around 1990 and it was pretty bad trying to convert typed fax pages sent to my computer, I can only imagine what it would be like for handwritten pages. I'm sure the software is much better these days but still, handwriting generally sucks and any OCR software I would think would have a pretty hard time with it.

 

[cbehnken]

Originally posted by: Calin

Originally posted by: cbehnken

Originally posted by: Calin
Such a software might exist, but its chances of correct recognition are pretty slim. That kind of software works best with "receive as you write" (like in touchpads) media, and much worse on already written texts. Also, they work well on Capitals and less well on minuscule letters, and they don't work as well on handwritting.
and there are some people that write so bad that humans cannot understand the writing:
http://www.resursadefun.ro/gi28_marean.htm

Translation:
Vanghelie's writting is worse than its talking!

Under this title, weekly magazine "Catavencu Academy" published this week the image of the declaration of accepting the candidature to the Bucharest Mayor Office of the Mayor of the 5th Sector bla bla bla.

After the image is the text you should find on the picture. Good luck!

You've never heard of OCR software? It's been out for ages.

Take a look at the attached picture. OCR software will correctly identify maybe one letter out of every 100

Well, no kidding you have to write legibly. Who'd dreamed it.

 

[Night201]

OCR is also better for typed documents. Like if you have a document that was printed a long time ago or received from somebody, but you don't have the original file. You can scan it with OCR software and it will bring the text into Word or some text editor.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: Night201
OCR is also better for typed documents. Like if you have a document that was printed a long time ago or received from somebody, but you don't have the original file. You can scan it with OCR software and it will bring the text into Word or some text editor.

Yep. OCR doesn't work reliably for handwritten text. Of course, this could change at some point in the future.

 

[Aenslead]

Originally posted by: kobymu


caller: software!?

me: software, application, arrrr, in you'r computer.

caller: computer?! what computer? i dont have a computer.

me:

.......


WTF?!?!?!?

Been there, done that. I AGREE: some people are very stupid.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: DaTT
Shens!