25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders 29
New submitter fritsd writes "Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders, a volunteer site which helps provide public domain books to Project Gutenberg, announced that their 100 000+ volunteers have reached the milestone of 25 000 books scanned, OCRed, and then meticulously proofread."
The 25000th title is The Art and Practice of Silver Printing by Capt. Abney and H. P. Robinson.
Re:meticulously proofread (Score:4, Insightful)
If I'm not mistaken, they mean meticulously proofred by us in reCAPTCHAs.
When I was proofreading on DP, all rounds of proofreading involved examining the scanned images and comparing it to the OCR text and making corrections. The later rounds of proofreading involved increasing attention to various details of correctness and formatting. All of this was done directly in the DP web interface. I didn't see any mention of the use of captchas in the OCR process.
Re:whose paying these guys? (Score:4, Insightful)
proof that socialism is a failure.
Proof that people can in fact be decent, generous, and caring.