Hi, Gerald. In general, I agree with what you're saying here. There
are 2 reasons I want to maintain a good OCR correction file. The
first is that I know myself well enough to know that I have to work
around my personal weaknesses. I am Mickey's opposite in that I
despise proofreading and am unlikely to submit my scans if I need to
spend hours proofreading after scanning. Right or wrong, it's one of
my quirks. I have tried to change myself over the past 15 years, and
it's an uphill fight. I scan around 5 books a week and read them as
they are. I can easily see myself with 100 scanned books sitting
here because I haven't had time to proofread them. I've already got
78 books scanned so far, and I've been trying to clean them up enough
to submit them. I'm already overwhelmed by what I've got.
Second, I scan a very limited type of books, either mysteries or
nonfiction and factual. My hard drive would reel in shock if I fed
it any fantasy books. I do see the need to remove a couple of the
words you've mentioned. I was looking for words that scan as garbage
that are definitely errors like the words cornpany, cbildren, and
rnake. My books do contain proper names but rarely contain anything
as unusual as the names of aliens or Medieval sorcerers. (smile)
Openbook makes applying OCR corrections a checkbox, and I'm glad of
that. If I agreed to scan a Star Trek book for someone, I'd turn my
OCR file off. I'm glad you have brought up these points because it's
good to be aware before adding a ton of words to the corrections
file. Thanks for taking the time to make sure I knew about the power
of my apparent magic bullet. (grin)
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Monica,
Actually, I prefer to keep OCR Correction turned off because it's another form of a global search and replace, and global search and replaces can get you in trouble.
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