On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Phil Daley wrote:
Note bene: I am not familiar with note scanning software.
I am _extremely_ familiar with character scanning software.
"95% accuracy" in scanning conversion to text produces a useless document. It is more work to clean up that mess than to retype it from scratch.
95% "sounds" good. In reality, it produces an illegible (and unreadable) text document.
That also matches my experience, from my days as typesetter for a weekly journal that reprinted numerous press releases. Unless the accuracy is up around 98% you're going to spend more time futzing with the file than you would retyping it. Part of the problem is that you don't know where the 5% errors are, so in addition to fixing the errors, you have to double-check everything.
Admittedly, an important factor in this equation is how fast a typist you are. If retyping is a slow process for you, then your threshold of accuracy to make scanning worthwhile is going to be lower.
mdl
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