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Subject:Re: How good is OCR? From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:30:36 -0500
Marc A. Santacroce wrote:
> It's taken me close to a year to develop a series of manuals that are
> mandated by new FAA regulations affecting aircraft repair stations. I
> am distributing the manuals an CD-ROM, with interactive Acrobat
> bookmarks. I'm off to a convention this weekend to peddle my wares.
>
> A competitor is offering another product that consists of an MS Word
> outline into which customers can cut-and-past portions of their
> existing manuals. I can see this working for those who have an MS word
> version of their manuals, but many of the customer base just have a
> hardcopy version. Has OCR software improved such that this is a viable
> option? I can't see this working for a pdf import.
>
> What does the group think?
I don't understand on what basis these products are competing. How does a
set of (completed) PDF manuals compete with a set of (empty) Word outlines?
I'd think aircraft repair manuals are life-critical, therefore they are
carefully QA's before being published. Any post-publication manipulation of
the text, whether by OCR or by human editors, invalidates all the QA that
went into that manual. Also, if someone is cutting and pasting out of their
manual, I'd be concerned about introducing ambiguities or inaccuracies due
to loss of context.
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