From: Gavin Thomas Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:03:07 PST
> Who could I outsource the scanning to in the US and Europe if
> I wanted to be able to overnight documents there, the TIFFs forwarded by
> email, and then have all of the OCR and data entry done in Uganda?
You'd be better off xeroxing the pages, and then having someone in
Uganda/wherever double-key everything. With reasonably sophisticated
DTD's, I've seen 95% tagging accuracy from folk in the Phillipines.
Even top of the line OCR isn't really cost effective yet.
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