re: a horizontal proofing interface, line by line
jim said:
Do you have software to automatically slice the bitmap and align the txt? Or are you slicing the bitmap by hand?
i don't do anything by hand, except pheed my phat phace, wave to my neighbors as i drive the car around our streets, pet my cat and dog, and pleasure myself and loved ones... *** juliet said:
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.
my software doesn't need any such information from o.c.r. *** dakretz said:
I would rather have a scrolling semi-transparent gun-slit overlay on the image that would synchronize with the cursor in the text. I can't proof with so little context.
i'm confused. the whole page of context is there, both in the form of the (sliced) image and the (sliced) text... but please, take the text and images i've provided and provide a demo of the system that you have described.
http://z-m-l.com/go/sitka/sitkap002.txt http://z-m-l.com/go/sitka/sitkap002.png http://z-m-l.com/go/lines
-bowerbird
Do you have software to automatically slice the bitmap and align the txt? Or are you slicing the bitmap by hand?
i don't do anything by hand...
OK, suggest you keep working in this direction as I think it would make a contribution.
Amazon has announced Kindle on iPad: http://www.amazon.com/kindleforipad Which, depending on your point of view might mean: "Oh Good, now I can also read my Amazon books on my iPad." Or "Oh Good, now I can proof both ePub and Mobi on iPad" Or "O. S., Amazon is *already* capitulating in the race against Apple!" Competition is good, right? ;-) Personally, having a reader app for the iPad which looks less goofy than that which Apple is proposing looks to me like a good thing. Tempting to get one for SR'ing where one wants to do small edits on the fly.
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