On Wednesday, 28th September 2005 at 07:30:42 (GMT -0500), Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
I don't think I would put a typist in a "superior" category to OCR. Just a different category.
For instance, OCR will often make errors like this: Tbe quich brown fox jumps ovcr the lazy dcg.
(This is an extreme, but you get the idea).
A human typist would make errors like this: Th equick broen fox jumpa over the lazydog.
To my mind, the major disadvantage of typing as opposed to OCR is that a human typist, in fact, often comes up with (to modify your example): Tbe quick bright fox jumps over the dog. This sort of error is far more dangerous than any error typically produced by OCR, because it does not announce itself to the reader in any way. -- Yours, Alex. www.avenarius.sk [processed by "The Bat!", Version 2.12.00]