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prettygoodwordscanno (SKAN-oh) - n., a typographical error introduced by imperfect optical character recognition (OCR) of a document digitized with a scanner.
Analogous to typo, an error introduced by imperfect typography. Some can be caused by an imperfect image, others by mistaking letter groups, such as recognizing m instead of rn. Modeled on typo (short for typographical error).
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Analogous to typo, an error introduced by imperfect typography. Some can be caused by an imperfect image, others by mistaking letter groups, such as recognizing m instead of rn. Modeled on typo (short for typographical error).
---L.
