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Comment I just finished... (Score 2) 186

...typing a very long FORTRAN source code that was printed on a scientific paper of about 50 years ago. The paper was available only as PDF, the publishing editors just scanned the original work, OCRed it and put the FORTRAN listing in the PDF file togheter with the original scanned pages. You can imagine the mess....'0' becoming 'O', '=' morphed into '-' and so on. Luckily they did not run the listing through a spell checker, otherwise....
I am quite proficient with touch typing, so to fix the troubles caused by the OCR, I put the paper on one side of my desk, the PC monitor on the others side, and it took me about three days to get the program listing in good order. My boss was quite skeptical about the whole operation, but after that the source compiled correctly and the program passed the run test, he had to think again about...and yes, he belongs to the "hey Siri" generation.

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