Automated Card Grading - Surface

[JollyElm]

I gotta say, assessing the surface area is a tricky business. Whenever I'm really closely looking at my cards to decide what to send in via Bobby's group subs, time and again I find weird little 'impressions' (for lack of a better word) here and there that confuse the issue. They will completely and utterly seem to be naturally occurring imperfections of the printing/glossing process...in other words, they've been there from the start...but it makes me think that these tiny (hard to describe) things might affect the grade. I'm not really explaining it well, but I'm sure many people here know exactly what I am trying to say.

My question is, would your technology be able to 'know' and detect the differences between, say, an indentation caused by a kid writing on a piece of paper on top of a card, and a naturally occurring gloss anomaly from the printing process? Tough question, I know. Thanks.