On 4/1/2010 5:46 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

here's a take on a horizontal proofing interface,
where the scan is sliced up into individual lines:

> http://z-m-l.com/go/lines/pagelines.html

might be good if you use an iphone, for instance.

If I were implementing DP again from scratch, I would almost certainly use an interface like this for at least part of the proofing interface/process. There are lots of advantages to putting the text very close to the image like that for close checking of individual characters. I would also provide a full page interface, much like the current DP one, since some things are easier to see when looking at the entire page at once.

Implementing this kind of line-by-line interface efficiently is only possible if one has word boundary information (actually, the line boundary) from the OCR. That kind of information was not available when DP started and to add it into the current DP would be so much effort as to make it out of the question.

JulietS