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Old 12-25-2008, 11:31 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
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.

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Judging by the obvious OCR errors in many of the eBooks I buy, either these tools are not used by even some of the "big name" publishers, or else they really don't work that well.
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