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Nope. Ladar intentionally used an obscure font (some variant of Helvetica with extremely narrow kerning) to make OCR difficult.

Obviously it would be possible to apply OCR, but it would take a few days/weeks to train the algorithm. An out of the box solution would not work.

What are interns for ?

Or are they "non-essential" employees ?

those are sequestered now.

If they're unpaid, does that still count?

2560 characters isn't that many. You'd have to proofread the OCR'd version anyway, I'd say it'd be easier to just type it in.

Should have printed it out as images via ReCaptcha