Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program Text-Correctors Hall of Fame

Automatically extracting text from scans of old newspapers is extremely challenging. Although this project is using the best available Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, the condition of the images it has to process combined with the frequently small fonts used means that many errors of interpretation are made.

Thankfully, many people have stepped in to correct the text and in so doing have made a wonderful contribution to this resource. The following table lists by month the people who've corrected the most lines of text.

2009Januaryjhempenstall9372 lines
cmdevine7515 lines
leesal6406 lines
Rebecca5381 lines
poshtotty5242 lines
2008Decembercmdevine20601 lines
mrbh18518 lines
fwalker1318478 lines
Rebecca12294 lines
poshtotty11264 lines
bluefilly10396 lines
jdickson28035 lines
jhempenstall7182 lines
maurielyn7165 lines
Lance.Dwyer6681 lines
dvickers6558 lines
Loco6524 lines
2008Novembercmdevine24818 lines
John.F.Hall20937 lines
fwalker1319749 lines
jhempenstall10263 lines
kerchar9897 lines
mrbh8939 lines
Ronda.Shambrook8728 lines
jdickson28596 lines
Maureen8395 lines
dvickers8353 lines
maurielyn6402 lines
cjbrill6113 lines
Michelle-Richardson5557 lines
JonK5536 lines
bluefilly5289 lines
2008Octobermaurielyn24538 lines
jhempenstall23265 lines
John.F.Hall21886 lines
fwalker1319714 lines
cmdevine16896 lines
Michelle-Richardson14703 lines
mrbh13676 lines
mcakebread10089 lines
JamesGibney7414 lines
RobynnOffer6775 lines
jdickson26049 lines
shutcheon5821 lines
wendy5322 lines
Anne5176 lines
khedrich5103 lines
Brooke5017 lines
2008Septembermaurielyn28111 lines
jhempenstall23623 lines
mrbh23139 lines
fwalker1313141 lines
cmdevine8748 lines
mcakebread8196 lines
allangray7599 lines
Loco6281 lines
Robynnoffer6173 lines
macca6040 lines
John.F.Hall5170 lines
2008Augustjhempenstall12428 lines
mrbh9673 lines
camerong6277 lines
scmorris5623 lines
maurielyn5372 lines
Lenore5086 lines
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National Library of AustraliaDeveloped by the National Library of Australia as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program