An article to test using GOCR
I have an idea: write my blog posts by hand, then use the optical character recognition (OCR) program GOCR to convert them to plantext. Will it work? unknown; GOCR is know to not be ideal for converting handwriting. It may end up being too much of a hassle to do all of the conversion and editing. Maybe my own, neat handwriting will still be too indecipherable to the program. This is the only way to find out. I'm wiritng this on unlined paper to give it the best possible chance; I'll attach the picture I use and the generated text, unfixed, below.
An image of the above paragraph in my handwriting
(Please note, this image copy is not what was actually fed to the program; I've compressed it and left it as a jpg for bandwidth/compatibility reasons.)
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(dearest reader, I don't think it worked.)