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by causality0 1427 days ago
So they're actually reading the texts and correcting the mistakes?
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Yes - that's one of the main points of the project!
I'm curious what tooling folks use to accelerate this process, has anyone written custom GUI stuff like tesseract box editor?
Hmm, I'm fairly confident a large chunk of this work could be automated (correcting OCR errors). I would be happy to take a shot at this problem as a volunteer, if you're open to the idea?
It’s not, because primary scans have arbitrary quality. Better OCR tech will spare you corrections but not from comparing the scan which is the big fixed cost whether it’s to correct 1000 errors or 10 errors.