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I use it similarly to clean up OCRed text. I can hand it something full of 70% gobbledygook and it hands me back something that makes sense and is 95% right. I manually verify it, fix the goofs, and it's so much faster.
So, riddled with errors but a decent start.
Wouldn't you get a better result from Grammerly for that?
I use it for more "OCR Nightmare" than grammar nightmare. Here's a (trimmed) example:
#Please clean up the following text:
#ChatGPT
That was from a scanned 1800s newspaper. Adobe Acrobat did not do a good job converting it to words. ChatGPT cleaned it up nicely and kept about the same meaning. There were some swings and misses, but it's much easier to edit the result into accuracy than the original mess.
#Actual text as hand-transcribed: