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Originally Posted by John the Miner
What a joy it is to find some kindred spirits in this discussion re typos in ebooks!
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The use of OCR technology shows the limitations of its own usefulness in transcribing the printed word to its electronic form.
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Funny how things have come "full circle" for me personally. In the late 70's my first real job was working for a yellow page company in the "computer room." (a 16 bit nova clone)
Input for the yellow page ads came this way: The copy was typed on IBM Selectric typewriters and then my job was to "scan" (OCR) the typed sheets to convert to "electronic format."
Soon after that "terminals" came in and there was no more scanning.
Now here we are in 2011, 35 years later and OCR is a major reason I can enjoy old classic books!
Weird
