Dustbury posted this Hurst advertisement from 1964. Naturally, I tried to read it. I could make out some of it, and then I got the bright idea of trying OCR (Optical Character Recognition). I found a couple of sites on-line and
tried one of them. It didn't do too well. Hmm. Let's see how well I can do.
I used
a text to image convertor to format this. I guess I'm just a converting kind of guy today. Not too bad, though there a couple of words I am not too sure of. Starfire, for instance, in the last paragraph.
Oldsmobile did make a Starfire, but according to Wikipedia, they didn't start making it until 1975, which contradicts Dustbury's date for this ad. Normally I would expect to see Cutlass, or 442 in that place, but I couldn't get my eyes to agree with either of those. So I don't know what model name is really there.
I may have gotten some of the sexist remarks wrong as well, but it's been a long time, and I'm not sure my grasp of lingo from the 60's is as sharp as it once was.
Update February 2017 replaced missing images.
3 comments:
There was an Olds Starfire from '61 through '66; Wikipedia even has a picture of a '61.
There are many other online OCR services existing one the web as well like: good ocr
I tried "good ocr" on a a piece of text from the ad (the left hand top paragraph starting with "For Him"). All I got back was
iiiiiiiiiiiiiii
iiiifiiiiiIlII
OCR may be good for large volumes of clearly printed text, but it's got a ways to go before it can match a human.
Looking at the image again, I find it almost impossible to figure out what the words are.
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