for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** today's example is from our friend from baltimore, edgar allen poe, in volume 9 of his collected works. here's the scan for page 115:
http://www.archive.org/stream/worksofedgaralle09poee#page/115
here's the o.c.r. for the whole book:
http://ia341307.us.archive.org/2/items/worksofedgaralle09poee/worksofedgaral... and here's the o.c.r. for page 115:
EUREKA 115
wme the eight Asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta PaUas, Astrma, Flora, Iris, and Hebe) at an average distance of about 250 millioiS Then we
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as you can see, this is another one of those hopeless pages... the scan is badly skewed, but you'd think that abbyy would be able to correct for that. but i guess you'd be wrong about that. anyway, hardly worth discussing this page. just go do it again... -bowerbird