[projectaon] Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders
- From: "Dave Doty" <davedoty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:27:16 +0000
I'm assuming most of you probably know about Project Gutenberg, a massive
program to make as many public domain texts as possible available freely on
the web. Some of you may be aware of Distributed Proofreaders, the main
source of texts for PG. We have so many great proofreaders here, who are
obviously interested in volunteering their talents to make books freely
available, I thought you guys might be interested in helping over there,
too.
The nice thing about DP is that all of the pages of a scanned book go into a
pool. You can't stall out a book, because you only commit to one page at a
time. They give you a scanned image of the orginal page, and an OCR of the
text, and you look it over and fix errors in the OCR.
I thought there might be some good cross-pollination between these two
projects.
http://www.pgdp.net
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