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Originally Posted by mrmikel
I have seen it over and over again that a mistaken scan will produce perfectly plausible and grammatically correct, but wrong, output.
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Precisely. Errors such as "dock" instead of "clock", "comer" instead of "corner", etc, are commonplace, and spell-checkers won't find them. The only way to find such errors (and I must politely disagree with Hitch's assertion that nobody does so
) is to do a word by word manual comparison of the original document with the OCR'd text. This is extremely labour-intensive: I've had years of practice at it, and I reckon I can proof-read around about 15 pages an hour with a typical novel, so that would be about 33h work for a 500-page book.