On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:40:20PM -0600, Jon Noring wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
My recollection of the latest word from Brewster is that they were just about to pass 10,000 full text eBooks, though not all had been proofread and edited to a 99.95% level of accuracy.
So I am presuming they did actually pass 10,000 in the last month or so, though I haven't seen any official announcements.
Is Brewster's effort (I assume you mean OCA?) doing actual proofing (which I always interpret to mean human proofing)? I thought all they were doing is scanning books and producing raw, unproofed text by OCR.
Jon
You could probably call them and ask for details. When I was there in January, they were talking about doing some automated and semi-automated quality control (like looking for missing pages, and aligning pages that didn't scan straight). I don't think they're doing any human proofreading or markup at all -- instead, they are looking to Distributed Proofreaders to take that step (or anyone else interested). -- Greg