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Proofread to help Project Gutenberg


Project Gutenberg, a volunteer organization which digitizes books in the public domain, need your help proofreading scanned text.

Do you grind your teeth when you see "lose" spelled as "loose"? The Distributed Proofreaders Website uses volunteer labor to proofread texts obtained by optical character recognition on scanned volumes.

When a proofreader elects to proofread a page of a particular book, the text and image file are displayed on a single web page. This allows the page text to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file...A second proofreader [verifies] the work of the first proofreader.

To date, the distributed proofreading project has worked on more than 8000 e-texts.

Distributed Proofreading [via Mike Brown]
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