I have an idea. It might run into a problem with copyright issues, but I am not sure because I think it might come under the provisions in the copyright act that covers preparing books for use by the print impaired. I am not sure what it is, but I think Open Library has a relationship with Bookshare. Bookshare has human volunteers who proofread scans of books. I am one of them. Might it be possible for Open Library and Bookshare to share scanned books? That is, copies of books that are held by Bookshare could be turned over to Open Library to be posted as protected Daisy books and the scans that come from the Internet Archive could be turned over to Bookshare to be proofread by Bookshare volunteers. Then after they have been proofread and enter the Bookshare collection they could be copied and returned to Open Library to be posted as better copies of what was there before. Am I just fantasizing or might something like this be possible?
On 12/29/2011 3:03 PM, Edward Betts wrote: > We don't currently have a system for recording the quality of the OCR or > correcting mistakes. > > As you point out the OCR doesn't properly handle blackletter type. > > A system for correcting OCR is often requested, conceptually it is quite > simple. Just a web page that shows the page image and a way to edit the > text. We keen to maintain page coordinate information for each word so > that we can highlight words in the book reader and search inside. This > makes the problem more difficult. > > We would like to build a correction system, but we don't have the resources. > _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
