Originally Posted by Bungnoid

Certainly not, but I believe that current state-of-the-art computer recognition systems still fall short of the capabilities of the human brain.

Regardless, my point was that the German report says that ATR does not work. One conclusion--one that many of us favor--is that the scanners should be scrapped. I was just pointing out that another possible conclusion is that ATR be scrapped. As to the effectiveness of the naked scanners without ATR, I don't think that the German report addresses that.