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P J Evans

@kcoyle @internetarchive
That's why I prefer the scanned image to OCR'd test. (I had a job, for a while, fixing OCR'd text in insurance laws. Some of the output was actually funny, like "legal obligation" becoming "lethal obligation" and "District" getting scrambled in to "Omelet".)

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karen coyle

@PJ_Evans @internetarchive The text can be really garbled. Note that it is offered to the visually impaired and I would like to hear how well it is working for them. When I look at it, it's a mess for things like tables of contents; plain text renders better, but there are still errors. Could something be set up where the text could be corrected by humans?

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