| Title | Distributed Proofreaders: Preserving History One Page at a Time | |
| Date | Friday April 10 2015, @04:15PM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the i-see-said-the-blind-man dept. | ||
Got some time to burn away? Interested in reading? If you find yourself agreeing with those two propositions, you might be a good candidate for Distributed Proofreaders which turns public domain books into versatile and compact ebooks. The OCR'd* pages of the books are first proofread because the machine still makes some mistakes and then formatted to all kind of layouts. If you're willing to give the process a try, here's a live demo. (no registration required) Distributed Proofreaders has preserved more than 29,000 books!
I think this is a wonderful way to spend some time and find interesting books while at the same time doing something useful. Also, no technical skills are required.
* Optical Character Recognition, a process of turning a scanned image of text into actual text
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