What are Good, Bad, and Flagged words?
The WordCheck interface is designed to help proofers catch differences between the page image and the page text. Often when the OCR software identifies the word incorrectly the word becomes misspelled and can be caught by a spell checker. Other times the OCR software incorrectly identifies a word in the image but the resulting text is a valid word. These words are still wrong despite being valid words. The team has decided to use the Good/Bad nomenclature to better reflect the intent of the WordCheck interface – to help the proofer match the image and the text, rather than use an inaccurate label like ‘misspelling’. After WordCheck has processed words at the various levels it comes up with a final set of Bad words to present to the user for validation or correction. These words are called Flagged words as they have been flagged by the system for closer inspection.
The WordCheck interface is designed to help proofers catch differences between the page image and the page text. Often when the OCR software identifies the word incorrectly the word becomes misspelled and can be caught by a spell checker. Other times the OCR software incorrectly identifies a word in the image but the resulting text is a valid word. These words are still wrong despite being valid words. The team has decided to use the Good/Bad nomenclature to better reflect the intent of the WordCheck interface – to help the proofer match the image and the text, rather than use an inaccurate label like ‘misspelling’. After WordCheck has processed words at the various levels it comes up with a final set of Bad words to present to the user for validation or correction. These words are called Flagged words as they have been flagged by the system for closer inspection.
