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Project Gutenberg is convinced that proofreading by human beings is a very important step, and that this step makes all the difference. The use of scanned books as is converted to text format by OCR software with no proofreading gives a much lower quality result. After running OCR software, the text is 99% reliable, in the best of cases. The main formats used are XML, TIF and DjVu.
"With all my heart," said I; and Mr. Job Jonson then rose, and reminding me of my promise of secrecy, took his departure. Pectus praeceptis format amicis. Horace. Est quodam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra. Horace.
It is possible to search the content of the book with the "Find" button available in any browser and any software, without a specific search engine. A field "Full Text" was recently added as an experimental feature. The assets of digitization in "text format" are numerous.
We have no other ground for the assumption, but this passage seems to point to a quarrel of some kind. It certainly does not alter the fact that every page bears evidence of Burton's hand. The preface then goes on to say that "a complete and literal translation of the works of Catullus, on the same lines and in the same format as the present volume, is now in preparation."
A three-year program to achieve a common MARC format was agreed on by the three libraries in December 1995. As most of the publishers use the SGML format to store their documents, a convergence between MARC and SGML is expected to occur.
That night I wrote to Robert, the disciple who had gotten shot, "... the past 4-5 years have been a bad trip, a bad format. i was getting sicker, weaker. it is necessary for my well being that i live off my own power. i have no need to convince you of this. this my body knows. my body has been telling me for years to leave Rama. Finally, he stopped convincing me to stay.
When the Air New Zealand ground based computer was used in 1978 to produce computerised Antarctic flight plans they followed the same format as those that had been produced earlier.
Such a Favour would oblige me to make my next Soliloquy not contain the Praises of my dear Self but of the SPECTATOR, who shall, by complying with this, make me. His Obliged, Humble Servant. Vitruvius. No. 168. Wednesday, September 12, 1711. Steele. ... Pectus Praeceptis format amicis. Hor.
The Permanent UNIMARC Committee, charged with regularly supervising the development of the format, came into being that year, as users realized that continuous maintenance not just the occasional rewriting of manuals was needed. In maintaining the format, care is taken to make changes upwardly compatible.
Some volunteers themselves prefer to type short texts, or works they particularly like. But most books are scanned, "OCRized" and proofread. Digitization in "text format" means a book can be copied, indexed, searched, analyzed and compared with other books.
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