Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is the OCR floor more dangerous than a simple gap in coverage?
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- What does your search return for a page it could not read?
- Are smudged pages distributed randomly across a newspaper run?
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B. It fails on damaged and handwritten text, silently
Why
It returns nothing, and says nothing about having returned nothing. Your "complete search" skips the damaged pages, and damage correlates with poverty, provinciality, and cheap printing, so the silence has a politics.
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