New technology that can read pages of a closed book
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 12-09-2016
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He said that the system could be used to analyse any materials organised in thin layers, such as coatings on machine parts or pharmaceuticals.
The researchers from MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the US developed the algorithms that acquire images from individual sheets in stacks of paper, and interprets the often distorted or incomplete images as individual letters.
"A lot of websites have these letter certifications (captchas) to make sure you're not a robot, and this algorithm can get through a lot of them," said Heshmat.