[RKKS08]

The issue was found out in my country, but I am too lazy make a proper translation to English.
It was possibly also on US news, but if not, a short description can be found on BBC (with links to some English speaking tech sites):

BBC News - Confused Xerox copiers rewrite documents, expert finds

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[RobA_Oz]

I can see why this might be a problem for European users, with the long upstrokes on their "1" and crossed downstrokes on "7" numerals. The Jbig2 standard might have been written for UK or US symbols. Interesting! Thanks for the link.

[Schraubstock]

...and crossed downstrokes on "7" numerals...

In science where numerals are handwritten it has become a custom to cross the down stokes of the 7 to avoid the number 57 being read as 51 which is known as a ligature in typography namely where the top horizontal stroke of the 5 is in handwriting often a bit too long and becomes part of the top horizontal stroke of the seven. This can happen when you write fast, try it.

Greetings

[cyclone3d]

OCR isn't perfect. That is a big surprise - NOT!

In any case, if you are scanning documents for archiving or reproducing, you don't want to use the highest compression setting anyway. The resulting document becomes very poor quality.

[RobA_Oz]

Indeed, and to write zero as "ø" for similar reasons.

Salutations

[lammie200]

It used to be that most larger copiers would store image records of what had been copied - all the way from income tax records to butt cheeks. They may still do - I don't know. But when the copiers were decommissioned and resold wholesale they would still have those records on their hard drives. There was a story and a video about it a few years back.

Here is one story on it:

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