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Old 01-13-2014, 03:11 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Not really OCR. There's an explanation of it in the Wiki here. It's used in cases where there is no digital version of the text, or the formatting is so complex that there's no easy way to create one (the books I have are mathematics books, full of equations).
That's where I was basing my understanding off of:
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Most agree that Topaz is a collection of glyphs arranged on pages, along with an unproofed OCR text version. It is used to make older books and foreign language available quickly, since conversion is essentially automatic from scans of the pages of a book, but it reflows very well.
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