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> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Deborah Vecht
> Sent: 01 October 2006 20:01
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> Subject: Re: Slightly OT.- Any Data Protection experts? - reply
>
>
> Martyn Hodson <[log in to unmask]>typed
>
> > that springs to mind - what have you signed in the past
> and what did
> > it allow them to do with your data?
>
> I have been a member of BAEM since 1989 and cannot recall
> what I signed, though I don't recall any data protection clause.
>
> > However I believe the selling sets of pre-printed lables idea
> > circumvents some of the provisions aobut selling thel ist as it
> > would need someone to sit down and type it all in again to make a
> > usable set of data from it
>
> I would have thought that OCR software could make light work
> of converting a few sheets of labels into a useful database,
> but I'm no computer expert.
Depends on the OCR software - a lot of the OCR software I have seen is
not actually all that goof unless the the text is the right font, the
right darkness and aligned well ...
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