see how easy it is to change the subject-header?

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don said:
>   When DP started, here was the basic process

the irony was, back in those olden days, it was
actually much more difficult to digitize a text,
because the o.c.r. was horrific, and thus it was
a pure pain to proof.

nowadays, even though o.c.r. is vastly improved,
it seems to take forever for a book to transit d.p.

here's an illustrative datapoint i just churned...

in one of the books that rfrank is using for his
roundless experiment, even tepid preprocessing
(which is what he practices) combined with o.c.r.
to produce 20% of the book's 240 pages perfectly.

another 30% of the pages had only 1 error on 'em.

and most of the errors failed spellcheck, meaning
they could've been isolated and fixed immediately,
without need of a word-by-word proofing modality.

d.p. uses dozens of volunteers, taking hours of time,
to do something that one person can do in one hour.

which would, you know, ordinarily be a very sad thing.
except what makes it funny, in this particular case, is
that the people at d.p. think they're being "efficient"...

-bowerbird