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Just One Page a Day

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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"

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  1. Which books are getting converted? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I feel this project makes a lot of sense, but it'd be interresting to know who decides which books get converted into electronic form.

    I'm sure interrest could be affected if people could, say, vote on what would be converted. Or do I make any sense?

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  2. Cantor, Hilbert, G�del, Turing ... by muyuubyou · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are these copyrighted? damn I've read tons of paper about them and never actually read their original papers.

  3. Wow... by Myco · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is great, but it's even more addictive than the Kill Everyone Project. Though arguably not as worthwhile.

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