however, once nick upgraded his o.c.r. program, he found that about half of his checks were no longer required. they had been necessary essentially as an artifact of an outdated o.c.r. program.
Begs the question why DP doesn't just institute a quality hosted OCR and let people just submit the page images. Ask people to test run a couple pages by the hosted OCR before settling on their digitization settings in order to make sure they know what they are doing.
but they could find 90% so easily that ...
Not that I totally disagree, but when you take out the easy stuff, the stuff that's left is harder to find. Especially at the P1 level too much cruft makes for painful proofing -- but so does too little cruft. Either way you scare off your newbies, who you need to keep around and happy and convince them to "progress" to the more difficult and less rewarding levels, such as P3 and F2. Its not just the cruftiness, but that the current interface doesn't make fixing common cruftiness easy -- neither on the fingers nor on the eyes. Working "solo" I find there are lots of clever schemes I can do to reduce the amount of "P1" cruft I need to fix -- but "P1" really only takes about 20% of the time and effort I find necessary to make a book.