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Old February 6th 07, 06:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jon Woellhaf
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Default History of the Iowa City Airport

Jay Honeck wrote
... Thinking it would save me some
time, I scanned the whole magazine article in, and then used OCR
software to convert it to a Word document.

What a joke! I would have been time ahead if I'd typed the whole
thing in by hand. I had to go back and correct so many dumb things
(like periods that showed up as commas) that it took FOREVER to do.


Back in the good old days, when we digitized hundreds of FAA documents, we
found that it took about the same amount of time to scan, OCR, and proofread
as it did to type and proofread.

Jon