Dproofreaders implementation (Feedback Request)

[Pedro Pessoa]

I was surprised that I couldn't find posts about it in this session of the forum. It seems a very great tool to be included in one's collaboration's workflow, as in the case of member of a community that are looking for creating ebooks from some specific material related to their area of interest.

Has someone here implemented it on a server and can provide some feedback on the experience of using it?

The post that triggered my thread:

Originally Posted by PeterT

It might be overkill but Project Gutenburg has an associated project "Distributed Proofreaders" at http://www.pgdp.net/c/

Their approach is to display on the screen the scanned page in image format, and the OCR'ed text. They do make their entire system available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dproofreaders/

Someone might be interested in running their own personal DP website and using it to handle the OCR validation side; yes I realize that this would still leave the markup to be done separately.

Cheers

[skreutzer]

Thank you very much! I looked for it quite some time ago, but I did not find it. Additionally, I need a way to add semantic markup to the text, but their software is a good start, I guess. So I don't have to write my own hopefully.

On the legal level, their license GPLv2 is a little bit unfortunate (SaaS loophole), while indeed a free/libre license at least.