Distributed Proofreaders

Preserving history, one page at a time.

This repository contains the code that powers https://www.pgdp.net and other sister DP sites world-wide.

About

Distributed Proofreaders is a web application (written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database) that is intended to ease the process of converting public domain books and other printed materials into e-texts. The main site is at https://www.pgdp.net

By breaking the work into individual pages, many proofreaders can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the proofreading/E-Text creation process.

When a proofer elects to proofread a page for a particular project, the text and image file are displayed on a single webpage. This allows the text file to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file, thus assisting the proofreading of the text file. The edited text is then submitted back to the site via the same webpage that it was edited on.

Once all pages for a particular book have been processed, a concatenated text file is made available for final clean-up and submitted to a Project Gutenberg site.

Installation

See the installation guide for information on system pre-requisites, installation instructions, and upgrading from an earlier release of the code. Additional documentation is available in the SETUP directory.

If you need assistance with the code, inquire within the DP Site Code forum at pgdp.net.

Code development

To get involved with development on this code base, see the development document in this repo. And also DP Code Development in the pgdp.net wiki.

License

All source code published here is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.