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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. |
Harry, you wound me.
I didn't mean, the REGULARS. (Or, in the case of this group,
The Irregulars). I meant, the drop-ins. {sniffle, wounded feelings}. OF COURSE The MR Irregulars do it!!! I meant, those that hit-and-run here, looking for the silver bullet.
Hitch