<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2012 06:51, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There are commercial OCR engines that scan well over 99% accuracy for<br>
typeset text... <br></blockquote><div><br>This is an impressive achievement, and sounds great, but let us keep in mind that 99% in OCR accuracy means more than one mistype each two lines, some of which cannot be resolved on the basis of the context alone.<br>
<br>I was once a testimonial, as a semi-famous lawyer, for IBM Voice Type Dictation, and the dictation system in comparison have the advantage of recognising not single phonemes, but basically entire words, and on the basis of the preceding and subsequent ones ("trigrammes"). OTOH, mistakes accordingly become harder to identify, especially if one does not so on the fly.<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>