What is the Distributed Proofreaders project? (The driving force behind Project Gutenberg!)
There are many growing information archives available on the internet, but with regard to Book content, Project Gutenberg (PG) is the granddaddy of them all. Founded in 1971, Project Gutenberg seems to be the oldest Digital Library project in existence- deserving of the [...]

A key element to my approach, is to separate the scanner software from the scanner, as much as possible. I’m not approaching this in a new way, I’m a Unix hacker.
Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition, summarized the philosophy as follows:
“This is the Unix [...]