My daughter, Juliet, tells me that an OCR error is called a scano rather than a typo.
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Scano
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Seeing the number of typos – or, more correctly, scanos – in these books shows that there’s no serious proofreading going on after the books are scanned.
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Over at Project Gutenberg, they use the term “scanos” as an analogue of “typos.”
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