OCR and Machine Readable Text
Dale Thorn
dthorn at gte.net
Sun Jan 5 10:40:37 PST 1997
Steve Stewart wrote:
> I have used OCR a fair bit, and I agree with you, I think you're being
> generous by saying even a 65% accuracy rate. I think our OCR technology
> today is pathetic, and it would be quicker just to type the damn
> documents ourselves. I've used a bunch of different packages from guys
> like HP, and others. I certainly don't know what Alan Olsen was using.
[snip]
I needed OCR to create indexed text databases of federal documents,
particularly legislation. The amount of hand editing required is
enormous. That alone would justify (in a sense) the use of off-
shore labor.
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