[Taxacom] A new way to view taxonomic publications

[Dr Brian Taylor]

Rod, Donat et al,

However good OCR and scanning get there will still be problems with old
literature.  For example, archaic German - see
http://hol.osu.edu/literature-viewer.html?id=4833&page=15

On of my human helpers struggled to read it  let alone make a translation
into Emglish.

Asian scripts ??

Brian



On 22/06/2013 04:57, "Roderic Page" <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Donat,
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 22 Jun 2013, at 03:29, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
> 
>> For my purpose I want to have a OCR accuracy rate between 99.9 and 99.99%
> 
> So this is the crux of the problem. You set a very high bar that BHL will
> struggle to meet in a lot of cases. This then sets limits on what you can
> achieve.
> 
> An alternative is to accept that things will be messier than that, and set
> your expectations appropriately. Plus we can think about ways to cope with
> messy text. It strikes me that there is a misplaced obsession with  "clean"
> data that gets in the way of making progress. You want the world to be one
> way, but it's the other way.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rod
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