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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by blewboarwastake on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:53PM (#24700526)
When i noticed that there are only public domain works, I got an idea for an optional mode where you help digitize books by typing from scanned/OCRed works and the results get sent to organizations like the Gutenberg Project or Distributed Proofreaders[0].

In the case of Distributed Proofreaders you could automate the process even by creating a diff of your results with the current draft of the Works being worked on.

This is just a crazy idea nobody take it too seriously. [0]https://www.pgdp.net/c/

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:33AM (#24708639)
Didn't Google / Recaptcha do that for a good while but with individual words?
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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by gregsadetsky on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:04PM (#24712717)
Yes they did, to help digitize Google Books and archives of NYT -- (from wikipedia) "The system helped to digitize the archives of The New York Times, and was subsequently used by Google Books for similar purposes" [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science/29recaptcha.html

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