Book People Archive

Re: Why proofed and formatted digital text?

bill said:
> I think I reject the dilemma Jon is posing here.

good thinking!

in the near future, machines will do almost _all_ the work
of morphing "raw o.c.r. text" to a state of near-perfection
in regard to both proofing and formatting, so this whole
line of questioning will fade to total meaninglessness...

noring is trying to use the spectre of "unproofed o.c.r." as
a trojan horse to smuggle his demands for heavy markup.

(the future will also prove that heavy markup has high costs
which do not return benefits sufficient for the investment...)

-bowerbird

p.s.   no project i know of has said "the scans are enough".
all of them are doing o.c.r.   otherwise, they couldn't _search_,
and users would look at them like they were absolutely crazy.
which is why this whole issue is a no-brainer from the start...