[open-humanities] [okfn-labs] Best practice for OCR workflows (re OED 1st edition project)

[Tim McNamara]

I guess it all depends on making it easy to use. Lots of libraries (
http://rose-holley.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/crowdsourcing-text-correction-and.html)
have been extremely successful allowing volunteers to correct OCR mistakes.

The Australian National Library's Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper)
is received over 100,000 corrections today! ANL seem to be using ABBYY
FineReader as well (http://www.nla.gov.au/content/ocr-overview).

Veridian (http://veridiansoftware.com/) appears to be the tool of choice.


On 24 August 2013 22:28, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Regarding plans for an open version of the 1st edition of the OED, I
> thought some of you might be interested in this piece from Cory Doctorow
> yesterday:
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/oxford-english-dictionary-future-digitally
>
> What do we need to move forward with an Open OED project [1]? It would be
> really cool if there were any way to break the dictionary down into entries
> that people could help to proofread and correct. Any thoughts on that
> front? Anyone else interested in helping?
>
> If there were any simple tasks that people could do, Adam said he could
> help publicise this to readers of the Public Domain Review.
>
> [1] https://github.com/okfn/oed
>
>
> On 24 June 2013 17:40, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On 21 June 2013 21:45, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get the Abby version direct from the Archive online
>>> or would one need to ask them specially?
>>>
>>
>> The Abby version is one of the formats in the directory.  Look for the
>> file that ends _abby.gz  There's also a torrent containing all the files if
>> that's easier.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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