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Was the text added using OCR? I ask because I see a number of text errors that look like that. * "1" for "l" (http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/009/ http://nk

by SamBam 10y ago

Was the text added using OCR? I ask because I see a number of text errors that look like that. * "1" for "l" (http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/009/ http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/009/) * Unmatched quotation marks or differing symbols (‘ vs ') (http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/002/ http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/002/) * Several times I've seen "yon" for "you" (http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/004/ http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/004/) * "l" for "r" (loom/room) (http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/099/ http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/099/) If so, what's the original source for these stories? I don't see credits anywhere, though I am probably just missing them.

fenomas 10y ago
Yeah, definitely. E.g. mistaking "alone" for "done": he used to travel done as a wandering mendicant As for the source, this[0] archive of a 1957 book has the same typo, so I'm guessing that's where it came from? [0] https://archive.org/stream/ZenFleshZenBones/zen_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/ZenFleshZenBones/zen_djvu.txt
- evmar 10y ago
  I recognize the stories from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (I have an old paper copy).
  - SamBam 10y ago
    And, although the stories may be ancient, the translation is presumably not. Are these out of copyright?
swsieber 10y ago
Hmm... while I don't know, it'd be interesting to write something that would automatically fix those things - which I find interesting because I would think that a good OCR service should use some model of word frequency or sentence structure to aid symbol resolving.
fitzroy 10y ago
Perhaps sort of digital wabi-sabi meant to test the zen level of the reader? If so, I'm failing.