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Old 05-20-2009, 10:47 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by TallMomof2 View Post
The most egregious errors are easily found with spell check. Those are the ones the I find intolerable. Some of the hyphenation problems are caused by improperly converting PDFs. Other problems are caused by OCR. I do a lot of PDF conversions for my personal use and find it takes too much time.
In my explorations of creating my own ebooks I've found one easy trap. It seems as though if you are using MS Word and its spell checker and it is set for ENGLISH (American) it will make an unholy mess of ENGLISH (the rest of the English speaking world (including Canada)). I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how to switch back and fourth easily.
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