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Cleaning OCR Noise from Phone-Photo VIN Captures Before Validation
Buyers photograph the dash plate or door sticker and expect a free VIN tool to "just work." OCR output is not a VIN. It is a noisy string: letter O for digit 0, spaces in the middle, random punctuation from glare, and sometimes an extra VIN label glued to the front. If you run check-digit math or…