Message Forum: Re: Trolls, and the dealing of

Re: Trolls, and the dealing of

Posted By: OneCoolCat, on host 64.136.181.205
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008, at 02:13:44
In Reply To: Re: Trolls, and the dealing of posted by wintermute on Friday, January 4, 2008, at 17:36:33:

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> Actually, I dislike CAPTCHAs, personally, because it always takes three attempts to prove I'm human. But if the effort of solving them also served a useful purpose, then it would be a good thing on balance.

Just because it never hurts to plug something good, if you want to take a more direct route to fixing OCRed books, there's always the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net) where you can work a page on a time on books that have been scanned in to check for OCR errors. When th books are completed (and they go through a lot of stages), they are posted on Project Gutenberg for the world to enjoy.
I'm rather fond of it because there's some very interesting books out there to proofread.

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Message:	> > > > Actually, I dislike CAPTCHAs, personally, because it always takes three attempts to prove I'm human. But if the effort of solving them also served a useful purpose, then it would be a good thing on balance. > > Just because it never hurts to plug something good, if you want to take a more direct route to fixing OCRed books, there's always the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net) where you can work a page on a time on books that have been scanned in to check for OCR errors. When th books are completed (and they go through a lot of stages), they are posted on Project Gutenberg for the world to enjoy. > I'm rather fond of it because there's some very interesting books out there to proofread.
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