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How big is N though?
Since there’s 78 pages, I’m guessing at least 1 ambiguity per page? Anyways, it’s dreadfully big.
2^78 is large but computers can do an awful lot per second, so if only about some the pages contain attachments 2^40-55 is something you could bruteforce in weeks if you can do millions of attempts a second
I have never looked into the details of an OCR, but if it's a classifier it should give the it's confidence in being a 1 or L so you can start with the low confidence characters.
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