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> which is supposed to be somewhat universal in correcting similar OCR'd PDFs

Xerox would like a word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815

Point being, "correcting" to "correct looking" may be worse than just accepting errors. Errors are often clearly identified by humans as a nonsense word. "Correcting" OCR can result in plausible, but wrong results that are more difficult for the human in the loop to identify.

parent daveguy 8 months ago

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