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Old 07-09-2026, 11:15 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
From personal experience, proofreading after the OCR stage was enough to keep me from wanting to read that book again for at least the next ten years. So, that kind of defeated the purpose of the exercise. I just leave the pages as cleaned-up scans now and don't try to convert to text.
I found using Calibre's ebook editor Spell check as a first pass helped a lot.
(not just replacing all blindly). You can double click a word in the found list and it jumps to the first place it was used. Context alone can answer the Q:wrong?.
Others are no brainers.
As usual, having many correct odd words is a PITA (but you can build a private dictionary for the book/series/universe)
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