"The next day, [NYPost reporter] Philip Recchia called me and said, Ann Coulter's book ... let's run that through," Barrie told me. But his company does its analysis by computer, so the book had to be scanned into a digital format. "The New York Post, at their expense, OCR'd every damn page of that book.
"Oh, my God, how long is that book?" Barrie added. "By the way, if I never read Ann Coulter again, it will be too soon."
The paper also scanned in the last 12 months of Coulter's columns for Barrie to analyze.
It didn't take long to find evidence of plagiarism, Barrie said. "After we found three in the book, we called it quits. I think we found four of her syndicated columns that had problems." But the task proved draining, he said -- on himself, not his technology. "After combing through Ann Coulter for a while, it doesn't take long before you want to call it quits. I want to prove the technology, but I don't want to make my eyes bleed."
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