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Bryson
Rocket Surgeon
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
 
2023-03-17, 10:34

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Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
From my perspective, it's the difference between scanning a typed document, and having the OCR fix the occasional blemish or recognition error because "Sorry, but çat is not an English word, so I'm turning that into cat", versus having the OCR change the meaning of the sentences by deleting or including select words without warning, or adding entirely new chunks of text that were not in the original document.
It's more like the OCR AI recognizing that the first few words on this page are the same as the first page of Pride and Prejudice, and then autofilling the remainder of that page from another copy of the book over the words that it couldn't read.
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