On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Markus Fritsche wrote:
> 
> Have you considered "HCR" (Human Character Recognition)? I mean this
> list is big... 
> 
> Maybe some kind of "HCR" swiki? with an document being written down by a
> translator and then queued for review. After one or two reviews by
> another author has been done, the corresponding page gets
> released. When all pages had been hcr'ed, the new book is compiled.
> 
> Something similar has been done in germany to translate the new Harry
> Potter (anyway, the translators had to buy the book and only the
> translators are allowed to read the resulting translation).
> 
Another example ist Project Gutenberg's Distrbuted Proofreaders:
 
 http://www.pgdp.net

They manage to proofread 3000-4000 OCRed pages per day(!) with this.

   Marcus

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