scano

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A form of scanno — A typographical error caused by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape.

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Meanings

nounscano (plural scanos)

plural scanos

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of scanno.

    My daughter, Juliet, tells me that an OCR error is called a scano rather than a typo.

    2010 Ivan Sutherland, "Old Salt Lake stories that you may not have heard," in Ian Piumarta & Kimberly Rose, eds., Points of View - a tribute to Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Inst., 2010. (Page 7)
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    Seeing the number of typos – or, more correctly, scanos – in these books shows that there’s no serious proofreading going on after the books are scanned.

    2014 Kirk McElhearn, "Ebooks and Typos: Readers, and Consumers, Deserve Better," Kirkville - Writings by Kirk McElhearn (blog), May 5, 2014

    Over at Project Gutenberg, they use the term “scanos” as an analogue of “typos.”

    2014 May 29, John Brown, “Edward Bear Shares More Proofreading Secrets”, in John Brown - author's official site

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

scano. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scano

MLA

“scano.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scano. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scano,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scano.

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