rumpumpel1 queried:
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What kind of errors are these ? Can they be corrected with a spell checker of a decent office program?
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A spell-checker can't help when the OCR interprets a dirt-spot as a colon. It can not help when the OCR gives a legitimately spelled word that is the *wrong* word, as in Harry's example of "clock" versus "dock". Other frequent OCR errors include "die" for "the", digit 1 instead of lower-case L or upper-case I (or any other mis-match combination of these three characters), the letters "rn" (that is lower-case R N ) turn out as "m" (that is lower-case M), etc, etc. Italics add more spice to the stew.
A *grammar-checker*, such as Microsoft Word provides, can help to some extent when it recognizes that a word is blatantly wrong for the containing sentence. Unfortunately, it is far from perfect still; and mostly concentrates on punctuation errors.
To get good results, you will
have to physically proof-read the scan results, comparing against the printed page.