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Validating Container Numbers from Gate OCR with the ISO 6346 Check Digit
Container depots and terminals increasingly read container numbers with OCR cameras at the gate. OCR is fast, but it is not perfect: a smudged 8 becomes a B , a 0 becomes an O . The good news is that every shipping container number carries its own error check, defined in ISO 6346 . You can catch…