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Old 10-25-2011, 06:19 PM   #101
Elfwreck
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@Elfwreck: thanks, I should have thought of some DP texts--but I'm scrounging some up from various commercial buddies, replete with the dreaded Abbyy "red," which I think will be interesting to those who've never proofed genuinely raw output. Maybe not.
Abbyy "red?" Not familiar with the term. (Is that output with errors highlighted? I've never done that because I always do the first proofing pass in Abbyy. And sometimes the second pass. I am really, really unhappy that they dropped the "draft view" window in more recent versions.)

It's definitely worth mentioning that scan quality makes a *lot* of difference, and from what I can tell, some publishing houses are using the default settings to scan at 200dpi, which on some documents, is going to get i's turned into :'s and h's turned into li's. (Even for good scans, some fonts turn up a lot of "tlie" instead of "the.")

FWIW, I recognize a few OCR errors now & then in ebooks I buy (I can tell which authors converted their backlists from scans), but nothing egregious. I gather the worst of the errors are mainstream publishers--because individual authors glance over their book before they release it; the errors are buried in the middle rather than on the title page... like "Tha Hobbit." (Instead, I run across characters whose arms have faded cigarette bums. Or who are using modem birth control methods.)
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