for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems
with the text in e-books from the internet archive...
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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/worksofedgaralle09poee_djvu.txt
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
>
> 90Tinfn^' f^^^^ ^^'^ '¬ª""¬ ∞¬ ∞¬´' '^^^ Sat¬´r^!
> flnal^ N¬´^. ' then Uranus, 19 hundred millions
> finally Neptune, lately discovered, and revolving
> at a distance, say of 28 hundred millions. Leav
> ing Neptune out of the aecount-^f which a^ vlt
> we know little accurately and whichl poSy
> one of a system of Asteroids-it will be seenthat
> with,n certain limits, there exists el older of
> interval among the planets. Speaking loosely
>
> w ll *^' ^u ‚ ¢ ^' '" ^^^ ^¬´^t i¬ ∞'^er one. May
> ofBol"'t''}T '^'=¬ ∞¬´¬ ∞ned-mot, not the law
> or Bode ‚ ¨ be deduced from considerat ion of the
> analogy suggested by me as having place between
> the solar discharge of rings and the mode of the
> atomxc irradiation? '
>
> r ‚ ¨~I^^ ""Mt^rs hurriedly mentioned in this sum-
> maij of distance, it is folly to attempt compre-
>
> ^o^}?.^l "" '^i,"* *^' "=' ‚ ¨¢* "* abstract arithmet-
> oni tL ^^^ ^' ‚ ^ "¬ ∞* practically tangible
> ^^A 17,.?''¬ ∞''^^ "" P^'^^'^e ideas. I have
> stated that Neptune, the planet farthest from
> the Sun, revolves about him at a distance of 28
> hundred millions of miles. So far good:-I
> ‚ ¨~Zt f ^1^ mathematical fact; aad, without
> comprehending ,t in the least, we may put it to
>
> ^V^ ¬ªT'"^*'''^"y- ^'it ‚ ¢ mentioning, even,
> that the Moon revolves about the Earth at the
> comparatively trifling distance of 237,000 miles
> I entertained no expectation of giving any one
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