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Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013) by na85 on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:13PM (#12236310)
The engineer in me hates how inefficient that is. Also it smacks of a make-work project... paying someone to manually insert markup seems like a huge waste of money.

Surely it'd be cheaper in the long run to just spend the money on some UX designers?

Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013) by zekevermillion on Friday August 05, 2016 @09:49PM (#12236682)
I think you need a human to manage the import bc any OCR or conversion error could kill the whole experience. Hopefully rhe machines could get us 90 percent of the way there. You know law firms used to employ armies of typists to prepare manual (pencil) difs of paper docs, so there is a certain cultural willingness to pay for perfect results, particularly on larger transactions.