Distributed Proofreaders

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

I'm rather surprised a search on "Distributed Proofreaders" didn't bring anything up: I'm usually pretty rabid about plugging them.

In any case, DP is a website that helps get public domain books into Project Gutenberg, which has been getting public domain works on the web, in many languages, for quite some time now. When you proofread a page, it shows you the original scan of the page followed by an editbox containing the OCR'd text. Sometimes it's almost perfect: in the book I'm doing at the moment, almost every word is wrong.

If you want to give it a try, there's a demo linked from the front page. I've also created a Young Wizards team, in case anyone really gets into this and wants to show off in a group. :-)

Have fun!

[Stormwind]

(Fingers itch to register for the site, and wonders if she'd be allowed to do it at work...) This sounds like something I'd love to do! Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I'm proofreading for friends, and looking over my old works hoping soon to get some of my own published (if my muse would stick around long enough to finish one story)