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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you OCR a book, how can you catch the inevitable errors that this introduces except by careful proofing against the original? Many OCR errors will not be caught by spelling or grammar checkers, but only by good old-fashioned human proof-reading.
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Actually there is quite a bit of knowledge about the kinds of errors produced in scanning and there are special tools that can fix these kinds of errors beyond the typical spell/grammar checkers. These tools are sometimes built in to expensive OCR programs. Of course in the end the human is the best at finding certain errors.
Dale