This is what the soft in software means. It needs to be able to be adapted and change with its requirements.
My favourite story from a previous job was working with high-speed scanners, OCR, data quality, typo correction - that kind of thing.
The pipeline did its job well enough. But later we got a new contract where we accepted email submissions (where the customer had scanned stuff themselves). The guys couldn't hook that into the pipeline, so they set up a new pipeline - to print out the emails so they could then be scanned into the existing pipeline.
My favourite story from a previous job was working with high-speed scanners, OCR, data quality, typo correction - that kind of thing.
The pipeline did its job well enough. But later we got a new contract where we accepted email submissions (where the customer had scanned stuff themselves). The guys couldn't hook that into the pipeline, so they set up a new pipeline - to print out the emails so they could then be scanned into the existing pipeline.
I still get a good laugh about that to this day.