Open Document, hit Control-A ... notice that highlight break on the 2nd line between "DISTRCO" and "ICT" to say "DISTRCO ICT"?
That says the OCR software had a "mental dominion" and read from another line and didn't catch itself!
You (likely) should find it on all other spelling mistakes or grammatical errors.
I don't think there's a way you can conclusively tell without knowing, but formatting errors and spelling errors in the title is the first sign. Once I realized she downloaded them from CourtListener and uploaded them onto her website, I realized where the errors came from.
No, there are not. It's from the imperfection of OCR because its from a scanning of a document CourtListener scraped off an electronic filing on PACER.
Did anyone already told you it stands for Optional Character Recognition hehe. Btw I worked in this business and I can assure you that it's very posible. OCR is wonderful but sometimes it makes mistakes.
Optical character recognition. It takes images with text and locked documents and then converts them into searchable and editable text. PACER is the federal court filing system, and CourtListener scrapes uploaded court cases from there, converts them into searchable documents. PACER does not give access to raw files.
They are spamming it, but no offense to people who don't realize this, those aren't typos, but OCR scanning errors.
No offense taken. For those of us who don’t know about OCR scabbing how can we tell in the future?
Open Document, hit Control-A ... notice that highlight break on the 2nd line between "DISTRCO" and "ICT" to say "DISTRCO ICT"?
That says the OCR software had a "mental dominion" and read from another line and didn't catch itself! You (likely) should find it on all other spelling mistakes or grammatical errors.
Thank you for the info!
No sweat - it takes all of us to MAGA!!
I don't think there's a way you can conclusively tell without knowing, but formatting errors and spelling errors in the title is the first sign. Once I realized she downloaded them from CourtListener and uploaded them onto her website, I realized where the errors came from.
I’m glad we have people like you on our side.
No, there are not. It's from the imperfection of OCR because its from a scanning of a document CourtListener scraped off an electronic filing on PACER.
Did anyone already told you it stands for Optional Character Recognition hehe. Btw I worked in this business and I can assure you that it's very posible. OCR is wonderful but sometimes it makes mistakes.
Whats an OCR
Optical Character Recognition. It's never been great. The court has the original, so it's all good :)
optical character recognition
edit - turning a scanned image into text. an art not really a science.
m == rn I == l and s0 0n...
optical character recognition. It's how computers "read" printed text
Optical Character Recognition
Optical character recognition. It takes images with text and locked documents and then converts them into searchable and editable text. PACER is the federal court filing system, and CourtListener scrapes uploaded court cases from there, converts them into searchable documents. PACER does not give access to raw files.