Martyn Hodson <[log in to unmask]>typed
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Deborah Vecht
> > Sent: 01 October 2006 20:01
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > 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 ...
It might well be fairly good for BAEM's labels then. They are
high-contrast, clearly serifed font and the odd error may not matter too
much...
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