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Originally Posted by HarryT
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. |
I wonder if speed readers could catch those kinds of errors efficiently? I'm a slow reader, and those errors make my comprehension engine go off the rails and put a halt to the reading process immediately. It would be interesting to know if speed readers experience the same crash, or if their comprehension engine doesn't run on a single track like mine.
There was a thread recently about using text to speech set at a high rate to quickly get through books. Perhaps that would be useful for finding wrong words in the text speedily.
P.S. I made up the phrase "comprehension engine" because I have no idea what that part of the process is called.