[MPlayer-users] Mencoder and transparent subtitles, again

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:03:12PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Tell me about it. I haven't AFAIR even found a Linux OCR program which
> can tell that a tiny circle (a period) is different from a large circle
> (the lowercase letter o), even *with* training (the interaction referred
> to above). Admittedly the shapes are, aside from size, identical - but
> size should not be completely ignored!

Actually they're not at all similar. They're topologically different.
Compare:

 OOOO
OO  OO
OO  OO
OO  OO
 OOOO

with:

 OOO
OOOOO
OOOOO
 OOO

One has a hole in the middle. The other does not. So this OCR software
is just stupid...

Rich