I just came across this article and got very excited because I know what it's talking about!
Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time
Unwittingly, millions of people every day help correct OCR'd texts via reCaptcha for the New York Times, Google, and beyond by squinting at squiggly words and transcribing them, like we did in class with our TOI transcripts. I love how subversive this is, in a totally positive way. It's just cool. (Despite Google's legal boundaries in its book project...ouch.)
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