Is the Voynich illegible?

[farmerjohn]

I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.

I actually think that the quality of transcription is not very important for VMS research. Even the most ideal transcription won't affect key properties such as word/letter frequencies greatly.

A good theory cannot depend entirely on the exact transcription of 1, 3 or 23 words - they could be errors, proper names, foreign words. Either make assumptions about these words or take another piece of text (there is a lot of text out there) - in any case it is the next step that really matters.