A quantitative comparison of the errors introduced by several methods for the reproduction of
the crystallographic orientation distribution function from poles figures is presented. The harmonic,
ADC, WIMV and component methods have been employed in the characterization of the deformation and
recrystallization textures of a Fe-50% Ni alloy in order to investigate the accuracy associated with each
one of these methods. To carry out this study, experimental and synthetic pole figures have been used
as input data. The strong and weak points of each method are examined showing that the iterative
discrete methods (ADC and WIMV) are better suited for the reproduction of the texture function in
the present case. In comparing these two discrete methods, it is evidenced that the ADC method
reproduces more accurately both the experimental and synthetic texture functions over the entire
range of texture sharpness considered.