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Distributed Proofreaders

A web-based method for converting public domain books into e-books by splitting work into

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Distributed Proofreaders is a volunteer-run website that converts public domain books into e-books. Each book is divided into individual pages so many volunteers can work on the same book at once. Volunteers compare a scanned page image with OCR text, proofread it, and a second volunteer verifies the work. Books progress through three proofreading rounds and two formatting rounds before a post-processor assembles the pages and submits the finished e-book to the Project Gutenberg archive.

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    Covers 1 of 15 key features.

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    Covers 3 of 15 key features and is open source.

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    Covers 6 of 15 key features.

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    Covers 9 of 15 key features and is open source.

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