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Re: OCR'ing the Grant play

From: N Wolcott <nwolcott~at~dsdial.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:55:59 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

No need to do the OCR, let the experts do it at Distributed Proofreaders.
Assuming the play was published pre 1921 DP can process it and post it on
the PG website. This process ensures the text passes through 4 series of
prrofreading to make sure almost perfect copy is obtained. I know from
experience that amateur efforts are usually a waste of time!

What is needed is a jpg image of the title page and the verso (the back
side). If you can email me these or post them (not too big 200-300K) I will
get copyright clearance and get the play in the DP queue. Or you can do it
yourself if you are willing c to cope with PG redtape, which I suggest you
avoid.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garmt de Vries" <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 2:34 AM
Subject: OCR'ing the Grant play


> Dear all,
>
> I've been able to scan the play Les enfants du capitaine Grant from Les
> voyages au theatre. You can find the scans, some 65 large tiff files, at
> http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/grant/. As you can see, I had forgotten
> five pages the first time around, so the order of the pages is a bit
> screwed up. Sorry about that.
>
> Wouldn't it be a nice idea to OCR this text and put it in the Virtual
> Library? If we combine our efforts, it shouldn't be too much work. I
> propose we divide the scans in chuncks of 10 files, then anyone who wants
> to contribute, can take one of those chunks and OCR them.
>
> The quality of the scans might be insufficient to do a good OCR. In that
> case, we could copy the text by hand. A bit more troublesome, but if we
> work with smaller chunks, we could still do it.
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.
>
Received on Tue 23 Aug 2005 - 00:03:46 IDT

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