Re: COMP: ?software

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:00  AM, Catherine Button wrote:
Hate to dump cold water on your parade, but well, you'll find out... The very best scanner in combination with the best OCR software, is, to be gernerous, only able to pick up about 99% of the text (closer to 98% for most). Unfortunately, you have to proof read 100% of it to find what it didn't get...
Actually, unless the font face is really good, it is a lot worse than that. Then the proofers come into play. Unfortunately we are finding a greater degree of missed errors than I had hoped for, mostly in seedling numbers and the like.


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