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Originally Posted by rkomar
Maybe you're just guesstimating the accuracy, but 95% is not good. 95% for characters is terrible, and 95% for words is marginally acceptable. A typical printed page has something like 50 characters per line and 40 lines per page, so about 2000 characters per page. A 95% success rate per character would result in about 100 bad characters per page. A 95% success rate per word would bring that down to about 20 or 25 bad words per page. Even 99% accuracy produces more errors than most people like. You'd have to get to about 99.9% accuracy before you could think about not proofing the text afterwards.
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Yes, I was guestimating, based on an entire novel. Scanning 1960's era paperbacks which are yellowed and abused. (Though I took very good care of my PB's)
I often got "1" instead of "I" or "l"; "m" instead of "r n" ; odd Hard Returns on the last line of a paragraph instead of Softreturns. So for an entire novel, 95% or better is more than acceptable to me.
(My epubs come out great!)