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Charbax · 10-29-2008, 10:27 AM

Yup, Google should provide collaborative manual corrections of OCR using basically an E-Ink reader that has an annotations feature like the Kindle or even better, one that has USB keyboard or bluetooth full sized foldable keyboard and where you can put up the E-ink reader on a stand on the table.

Google could also use this same collaborative manual corrections system for translations.

When millions of users get to participate in an automatic collaborative way, you can quickly get the full OCR and translations done.

In the same way as a Wiki, you get to log exactly which user corrected which words, this way you can hold users accountable and automatically block any attempt at vandalising texts. Also you can automatically compensate the work done by people to correct OCR and machine translation errors.

10-29-2008, 10:27 AM	#17
Charbax Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 550683 Join Date: Mar 2007	Yup, Google should provide collaborative manual corrections of OCR using basically an E-Ink reader that has an annotations feature like the Kindle or even better, one that has USB keyboard or bluetooth full sized foldable keyboard and where you can put up the E-ink reader on a stand on the table. Google could also use this same collaborative manual corrections system for translations. When millions of users get to participate in an automatic collaborative way, you can quickly get the full OCR and translations done. In the same way as a Wiki, you get to log exactly which user corrected which words, this way you can hold users accountable and automatically block any attempt at vandalising texts. Also you can automatically compensate the work done by people to correct OCR and machine translation errors. Last edited by Charbax; 10-29-2008 at 10:30 AM.