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Re:Ask HN: How could a programmer contribute to your industry? by mikece on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:07AM (#36892844)
How about the preservation of books? I'm working on converting scans (OCR and otherwise) of long out of date, public domain books to a clean digital form (web, PDF, and ePUB) and the hours upon hours of editing typos made by OCR seems like something a large language model or contextual syntax and spelling analyzer should be able to easily sniff out and correct easily enough. My goal is just to preserve knowledge in as compact a format as possible (along with the basis for a clean re-publishing effort if someone wanted to take that on).
Re:Ask HN: How could a programmer contribute to your industry? by seansh on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:52AM (#36893515)
That sounds like a very interesting and useful project. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: How could a programmer contribute to your industry? by mikece on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:09AM (#36893799)
Ping me if you actually take this up: it's something I've taken up as a "lifetime project" but am doing this in a very manual process currently.
Re:Ask HN: How could a programmer contribute to your industry? by zerojames on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:48PM (#36900596)
I wish there were a way to “follow” a HN thread. I am very curious about this, too.