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Maybe Project Gutenberg would like them... Also Amazon or Google Books might be interested in them.
by iterationx 16y ago
Maybe Project Gutenberg would like them... Also Amazon or Google Books might be interested in them.
- ig1 16y agoI've only got the images and not the text form, I tried running them through Abbey Finereader (the OCR package that PG normally use) a while back and didn't get great results, presumably because of the age of the books. So I'm guessing Project Gutenberg would be unlikely to be able to make use of them.
- ars 16y agoSend it to Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net/ http://www.pgdp.net/ - they work with Project Gutenberg to OCR books. You can also sign up and help proofread OCR'd books (every OCR is manually checked by humans).
- abhaga 16y agoAll the Project Gutenberg books are proofread by humans in the end. So they may be able to use these after all. No harm in asking.
- slyall 16y agoI would contact PG, they have a lot of experience with OCR and can use people like distributed proofreaders to fix the mistakes. At minimum if you give them a copy then they will keep it secure if you later lose interest