I agree. Although BNA say they use "state of the art" OCR, it's often very poor, and simply feeding an image of an article to one of the free web-based OCR services often produces far better results than BNA's transcription.

Improve your character-recognition software: it really needs to recognise a long 's' .

Ability to correct text from within find my past

This short example shows how bad the OCR can be!
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I am referring to recently scanned pages. The Lincs Chronicle of 1919 is almost useless. I would love to post here the text as read by OCR to illustrate this.

Sometimes it seems that the newspapesr you are scanning are of poor quality. They do fade and get damaged, and their storage affects their survival. It must be difficult to get hold of good copies quickly, so some rescanning may have to take place in the future

If we could use wildcards it would get round some of these problems

There are some quite common misreads such as 'tbe' instead of 'the' would it be possible to do a find all and replace all search

I find that searching with 'EXACT' for a surname like IVIN picks up Giving and other such words this shouldn't be so with good OCR