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Old 05-26-2016, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by bcornell View Post
Actually, it could not. This is a fundamental misunderstanding that the OP has about technology. And "lasers".

Computers like uniformity. Grading cards is a textbook example of something that humans can do infinitely better than computers because of the enormous amount of variance involved. Do humans grade cards perfectly? No. Would computers do it far, far worse? Undoubtedly.

Bill
Agreed.

By that post we'd moved on from lasers to current scanning technology and machine vision. Which can do some amazing things. The easy stuff I was referring to is stuff like centering and size. There's stuff out there for stamps that will measure the perforations (The hole they used to punch to make them easy to separate) So I'm sure size and centering and maybe corners are no problem at all.

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