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BenWestgate / Bails

Bails is a Bitcoin solution protecting against surveillance, censorship, and confiscation. It installs Bitcoin Core to Tails encrypted Persistent Storage, creates and recovers Bitcoin Core wallets from Codex32 (BIP93) seed backups, and creates backup Bails USB sticks and shareable blank Bails USB sticks. Learn more in README.md.
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Scanning Handwritten Codex32 Strings #79

Closed BenWestgate closed 1 year ago

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

For users who have handwritten their codex32 string, consider implementing an image recognition feature that can scan and interpret the handwritten characters. This would further minimize the manual input required.

This would be helpful for both creation and recovery and potentially save several or dozens of minutes depending on the size of the backup and recovery threshold.

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

We will need to see what libraries Tails has available by default for this and if none, if any popular open source projects can do the Image Recognition / OCR to "type" the string for the user.

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

Just made a recovery code for Apple ID and they do not even do OCR. This issue should be closed as it is not a typical user expectation.