A basic tool to enable you to lay out a PDF/photograph or other source file alongside a wiki or text field for transcription. Should be able to share URL. Optionally able to annotate the text (or this could be done separately if easier.)

Use cases:

  • Transcribing official government documents that are in the public domain or openly licensed (e.g. PDF files or photographs of handwritten/typed forms, reports, etc)
  • Transcribing public domain texts (e.g. from book scans)

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See Scripto: http://scripto.org/ and https://github.com/chnm/Scripto (where it gives the license as GPL 3)

and From The Page http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/ (under AGPL)

and see this post: http://scripto.org/?p=77 about crowdsourcing technologies.

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solved 21 Mar '11, 12:57

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edited 21 Mar '11, 17:59

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See Scripto. http://scripto.org/

It appears to be exactly what you want.

--Peter Suber

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solved 21 Mar '11, 13:01

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solved 03 May '11, 14:51

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