juliet said:
>   Only as easy as pie if the OCR got the page number correct.
>   In my experience, page numbers are very frequently misread.

i'm getting ahead of myself, but yes, you must check them first.

in the sample book which i'll be talking about, 4 pagenumbers
were misrecognized in 108 pages, and 1 was entirely missing.
and actually, the misrecognitions were on the left-bracket that
preceded the pagenumber, rather than the pagenumber per se.
but yes, it is true this book had atypically accurate recognition,
and that pagenumbers are not infrequently misrecognized...

however, it's also true there is a _huge_ amount of redundancy
in pagenumbers -- they march on in a predictable sequence --
so routines can be written (and i have written a few of them) to
"fill in" the missing numbers in an astonishingly accurate way...

even the unnumbered pages stick out in a fairly distinctive way,
since the numbering-sequence politely "steps around" them...

but why don't we hold off further dialog until i do my full post?

-bowerbird