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Originally Posted by Ea
Sometimes the OCR software mangles things so much it's uncomprehensible, or you just can't guess the right word.
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If it's a public domain book, you could do a search for the text you have in Google Books - the search hits will return text snippets from their books and hopefully they'll contain the missing word.
It'll return text from Snippet view and No Preview books - which you can't ordinarily access (afaik).
I'm having to do this quite a lot for the book I'm proofing at the moment.
E.g.
The PDF I'm using has "and the dresses of the ladies, ....ped about the piano"
Searching Google Books for the text and book name:
"and the dresses of the ladies" Diana Trelawny
I can see the missing text is "as they stood grouped".
