@JHolland said:
Just to be on the safe side, I spent a couple of hours verifying that the analysis worked the same as before.
The solution, naturally, was to add a delay in the progress bar (for
that customer only) so it spent a full ten seconds counting down,
longer for a big data array. Now they were happy!!
Six months later, they complained that the analysis was taking too long
and could we speed it up. I cut the fake delay in half and they
were overjoyed. It was not MY decision to charge them $5,000 for
"optimization and refinement of algorithms".
Err, after failing to make them understand
your data analysis is done while the document is being scanned,
perhaps, maybe, instead of scamming your customer like that (not that
they don't deserve it), you could make the progress bar pops up
earlier, like while the document is being scanned.