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I see an obvious typo in the first one: "wickked deeds of witchecran" (should be craft)

I can see why the OCR is a challenge here, and spellcheck is a lost cause, but I'm surprised an LLM cleanup pass didn't detect this?

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In hindsight it was probably a terrible example to you use, because people will think the OCR is off, but if you click on the clipping (or download the PDF from the PDF link at the top) and zoom in, you'll see that it's verbatim quoting some ancient text, which uses a lot of old-timey spelling (wickked e.g. is actually spelled wickked in the article), so I'm pretty happy with the quality it managed to eek out on that!

Check out the other examples for a more representative quality :-)

I see what you mean now with the witchcran. I do instruct it not to correct old-time spellings, and only to tidy up obvious mistakes. I guess it got confused on this one

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