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OCRtifacts

An open list of 9 words by ry.

  • inxationary was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • cornputer was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • cornponent was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • spiash was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • wflhout was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • troru was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • mmutes was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • vetermanan was added by ry and appears on just this list
  • Ohrisfmas was added by ry and appears on just this list

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Criteria for this list: I see a particular error come through OCR’ed documents >1x (where the error does not simply form another English word). I Google it like so and check the no. of hits. If there are enough obviously unique results (adjusting for the frequency of the normal word in the corpus)—it's an OCRtifact. Mirth ensues.

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  • ry Prolagus thx! A great site. I'm embarrassed to've had no inkling of it for the past several years.

    I work w/ scanning/documents & such, and I'd never heard "scanno." It does seem a bit awkward—there being no such beast as the phrase "scanographical error." Dec 6, 2012

  • Prolagus A great alternative to scanno :)

    Hey, welcome to Wordnik! Dec 5, 2012