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Avenues to Improvement of Translation
Pages 32-33

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... USAF Foreign Technology Division (FTD) figures show that production costs (assembly and reproduction of the final translations)
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... Automatic character recognition work is being supported heavily in connection with several kinds of activity (information retrieval, post office, for example) where the financial savings through successful character recognition would be much greater than in machine-aided translation.
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