Spelling checkers for OCR programs

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From: Anders Thulin
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 06:51

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Are there any spelling checkers suitable for output from OCR programs?
I am thinking of spellers that know about common substitution errors
that OCR programs make (such as i -> l, h -> 4, cl -> d, etc). They
should also be able to recognize the character used for recognition
errors (often ~, @) and do something useful.

I have heard of of OmniSpell (from Caere), but according to MacWorld
it doesn't do half of what it claims.

Are there any other?

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Anders Thulin       ath@prosys.se   {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath
Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

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Subject: Spelling checkers for OCR programs
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