But back to the topic, seriously! I am reminded of something that I saw recently. It was a display in a store window for a brand of pizza called Phillipe's. The first letter was a line drawing of a chef's hat. I think that after seeing the rest of the name, ...hillipe's and from the context I knew the hat had to also be the letter 'P'. That's two things that computer programs are bad at handling, context and ambiguity. The first could be taken care of with dictionary searching. The second cannot be anticipated in advance; chef's hats are not in the domain of character recognition programs. The program would have to "hypothesize" a 'P' and see if it could be found within the hat.

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