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The "book scanning" hypothesis doesn't sound so bad — but couldn't it simply be OCR bias? I imagine it's pretty easy for OCR software to misrecognize hyphens or
by xg15 1y ago
The "book scanning" hypothesis doesn't sound so bad — but couldn't it simply be OCR bias? I imagine it's pretty easy for OCR software to misrecognize hyphens or other kinds of dashes as em-dashes if the only distinction is some subtle differences in line length.
- flowerthoughts 1y agoYou'd think context-less OCR would prefer interpreting it as a simple hyphen, since that's the most common dash. Seems unlikely any bias would go the other way.