Only if you start out with that premise. Any business that writes document software of the sort Adobe does with the intent of as perfect a reproduction as possible given the limitations of digital reproduction isn't going to settle for a program that mish-mashes the original just because the first person they gave the job to didn't know what he was doing.
Try playing chess against a $60 software package sometime. We humans are much more imperfect in many ways than our machines.
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There are certain things machines do well. Performing many calculations very quickly is one, and is why computers are so good as playing chess. Distinguishing text from non-text, in context, is not. OCR technology is pretty good, and getting better, but it’s not perfect.
I deal with OCR’d documents every day (I’m an attorney, a number of my clients have scanned many of their contracts and saved them as PDFs). While the technology works pretty well, if I need to find particular language in a contract, a search of OCR’d text is no substitute for a pair of human eyes on the document.