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It was a great relief not having to go to work and spend 8 hours at a mostly mindless task. The reason why my job exists is that machines do not yet have enough pattern recognition ability to locate specific information in an almost randomly formatted document, nor do they have the ability to figure out what data has been captured incorrectly in an automated OCR scan of the page.
For example, take the business information below:
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe, Esqs, LLP
101 Vesey Street, Suite 10L
New York, NY 10007
Often, a person's signature may obscure some of the text. So we have to figure out what text is underneath the signature. Sometimes, letters are mixed up with numbers and vice versa. Suite 10L might be scanned as LOL, 101 or 1OL. We have to fix that error as well. And then, some of the information we need to enter into a database is not found on the main page, but on a second page. A lot of micro decisions are made throughout the day, and I am exhausted by day's end.
When one does work like this on a daily basis for months at a time, one's mind gets a little fried. I do not have the energy to read books anymore. Instead, I surf the web for short articles worthy of a skim. Lately, I'm watching YouTube videos for information related to cruising, car purchasing, and other information I find of interest. (I'm lucky to be able to filter out the people who don't know what they talk about, leaving only decent sources of information in the areas I've just mentioned.)
Soon, I plan to leave this job. It's a little scary to shift into a new phase of life. But it will be rewarding.
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On a side note, my company asked me to supply a picture for a new ID card. This picture was emailed overnight. I'm very glad that they didn't ask me for a copy of my driver's license!
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