Just One Page a Day

Charles Franks writes "Two years ago I started building an online proofreading system as a way to help Project Gutenberg (PG) get more books online: Distributed Proofreaders (DP). The concept is simple, we scan books and load the image and OCR output for each page into the online system. Next, proofreaders compare the OCR text to the image making any corrections as necessary, each page gets looked at twice. Finally the output from the site is massaged into a PG e-text and submitted to PG for posting to the archive. Now, nearly 600 books and a lot of PHP code later, we have snuggled into our new home which is graciously provided by the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Now that we have 'real' resources available to us (the original site ran on a Pentium 200 over my 128kbps upstream cablemodem) I would like to invite the online community at large to help us put even more books online. To this end I would like to ask everyone to do 'Just One Page a Day'. Thank you, Charles Franks"

Comments

And you ask the /. community..

[Harald74]

... which is renowned for it's spelling prowess? ;)

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Textbook Error]

for it's spelling

Or grammer... :-)

("it's" == "it is", "its" == possessive form)

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[tswinzig]

... which is renowned for it's spelling prowess? ;)

Are you kidding? With the number of people bitching about grammar and spelling in the comments, you just know there's a pool of talent here!

(BTW, there's no apostrophe in the possessive form of "its.")

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[tswinzig]

for it's spelling

Or grammer...

Or spelling?

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Anonymous Coward]

Or sense of humour?

Just one page a day?

[Adam Rightmann]

Sounds like Gary Condit's plan for extramarital affairs.

Obvious...

[OrangeSpyderMan]

I'm shure that buy askin teh Salshdot crowd (esp. the editturs) to help, yule improove jamatically teh kwality off you're output.

:-)

Wow, what a scary thought

[TheConfusedOne]

Imagine the kids 200 years from now reading |-|uc||_3b3rry F1|\||\|.

(That hurts my brain just trying to type it in...)

Read?

[uneek]

Don't you mean run a compare tool in the background using CPU idle time right?

You don't actually want us to read a
page of literature do you?

Just one page a day, huh?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Sure, it starts as just one a day. But, before you know it, you're doing two, then five, then ten.

You stop going out with friends or even returning their calls, personal hygiene takes a back seat and even Counter Strike and Warcraft III become unappealling. And, finally, after countless chapters and hundreds of pages you realise that you're friends were right: you're an addict.

Just one page a day, huh? Yeah, right.

Opium. Pot. Cocaine. Now pages.

It might not be your older brother's drug, or your Daddy's or your grandfathers, but, trust me, this stuff can be dangerous.

Do what I do. Just say no.

Re:A better use of time (OK, here's mine)

[gosand]

If we just write one line of code a day each we'll have better OCR in no time.

OK, here's mine:

#include stdio.h

next...

Re:And you ask the /. community...

[Binestar]

MY GOD! A story where nitpicking grammar and spelling is *ON* topic.

This'll be a fun one to read through.

Looking for proofreaders on slashdot !!

[tadas]

If they're looking for proofreaders here, the project is in deep trouble...