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Originally Posted by Hitch
@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.
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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.)