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I have gotten *much* better accuracy than you suggest. A dozen years
ago, the early versions of OmniPage were seeing about 2 or 3 errors
per page of xerographically reproduced printed pages, and TypeReader
was even better.
I would expect both to be substantially better today, but certainly
better than "one error every twenty words" for clean originals.
David
On 6/18/05, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> OCR of really crisp scans easily exceeds 99% accuracy nowadays, but
> that's not as good as it sounds; it still means one error roughly every
> 20 words. Budget time for proofreading to catch typos.
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