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Distributed Proofreaders
About Distributed Proofreaders
The idea? Enlist an army of volunteers to proofread, one page at a time, text destined to be added to the Project Gutenberg e-book program. Currently, over 400 pages are proofread each day on average!
Proofreaders compare an image of a scanned page of classic literature to the text recognized by an OCR program. The OCR software does a pretty good job these days, but it still requires a human to look over the output and clean up misrecognized punctuation and letters. After two rounds of proofreading, the result is submitted to Project Gutenberg.
Visit the Distributed Proofreading project at http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/.
About Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision. Now, almost thirty years later, Project Gutenberg publishes an average of one e-text every day!
Visit Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.net.
