Comment by freedomben
12 hours ago
I can't say for project Gutenberg specifically, but in general a huge issue I see is OCR errors. What do you all do to address OCR?
12 hours ago
I can't say for project Gutenberg specifically, but in general a huge issue I see is OCR errors. What do you all do to address OCR?
Check out Distributed Proofreaders: https://pgdp.net
I didn't realized DP was still around. I used to do it quite a bit, 15 years ago, but OCR has improved considerably since then.
I uploaded a PDF to archive.org that auto-OCRs with plenty of mistakes. I have found no way of updating the entire stack of documents produced. I wonder if Project Gutenberg is similar