Randy Stern wrote:
> Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial 
> OCR products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most 
> book-like material scanned at 300 dpi.

I know that 98% is impressive, but I always like to remember that with 
an average of 2000 characters per page that means 40 potential errors 
per book page. Just to give us some perspective on the level of cleanup 
that will be needed for books being digitized today.

kc

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