What is Distibuted Proofreaders Canada?
Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC) is a volunteer-operated program, founded in 2007 by Michael Shepard and David Jones to support Project Gutenberg Canada by making etexts of public domain books available freely to everyone. The basic concept is that our website software allows several proofreaders to be working on the same book at the same time, each proofreading on different pages. This significantly speeds up the proofreading process. Here’s how it works: 1. This website uses online software and databases to create a “library”. 2. Volunteers (content providers) scan books and upload the scanned images into this library. 3. People like you (proofreaders) choose a project (book) to work on today. 4. The website then shows you a webpage containing the scanned image of one page and the text from that image (as produced by OCR software). This allows you to compare the scanned text to the image of the page easily, so you can note the differences and fix them. 5. You read the text, and
