IBM Quick Reference Guide - 1992

[Kevin Handy]

gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:

>>OCR is the hard part and I've yet to hear of anything that is
>>even close to remotely acceptable. At say 1000 words/page
>>a success rate of 99.9% still leaves you with one fix up
>>per page. That's a good chunk of work for even a small manual
>>(say 200 pages). It's a lot of work for an RT-11 manual set
>>or similar!
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like an ideal thing for a distributed project.
>Give everyone who registers a few pages to proof read, combine into
>finished work.  If you wanted cross-checking you'd just make sure that
>different people got different batches at different times, and diff the
>results.
>
>Gordon.
>  
>
Sounds like you want something like:

    http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php

However, for technical documents, I'd like to be able to see the
original in case an OCR scanno occurs in just the wrong place.