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.
| 2009 | January | jhempenstall | 9372 lines |
| cmdevine | 7515 lines | ||
| leesal | 6406 lines | ||
| Rebecca | 5381 lines | ||
| poshtotty | 5242 lines | ||
| 2008 | December | cmdevine | 20601 lines |
| mrbh | 18518 lines | ||
| fwalker13 | 18478 lines | ||
| Rebecca | 12294 lines | ||
| poshtotty | 11264 lines | ||
| bluefilly | 10396 lines | ||
| jdickson2 | 8035 lines | ||
| jhempenstall | 7182 lines | ||
| maurielyn | 7165 lines | ||
| Lance.Dwyer | 6681 lines | ||
| dvickers | 6558 lines | ||
| Loco | 6524 lines | ||
| 2008 | November | cmdevine | 24818 lines |
| John.F.Hall | 20937 lines | ||
| fwalker13 | 19749 lines | ||
| jhempenstall | 10263 lines | ||
| kerchar | 9897 lines | ||
| mrbh | 8939 lines | ||
| Ronda.Shambrook | 8728 lines | ||
| jdickson2 | 8596 lines | ||
| Maureen | 8395 lines | ||
| dvickers | 8353 lines | ||
| maurielyn | 6402 lines | ||
| cjbrill | 6113 lines | ||
| Michelle-Richardson | 5557 lines | ||
| JonK | 5536 lines | ||
| bluefilly | 5289 lines | ||
| 2008 | October | maurielyn | 24538 lines |
| jhempenstall | 23265 lines | ||
| John.F.Hall | 21886 lines | ||
| fwalker13 | 19714 lines | ||
| cmdevine | 16896 lines | ||
| Michelle-Richardson | 14703 lines | ||
| mrbh | 13676 lines | ||
| mcakebread | 10089 lines | ||
| JamesGibney | 7414 lines | ||
| RobynnOffer | 6775 lines | ||
| jdickson2 | 6049 lines | ||
| shutcheon | 5821 lines | ||
| wendy | 5322 lines | ||
| Anne | 5176 lines | ||
| khedrich | 5103 lines | ||
| Brooke | 5017 lines | ||
| 2008 | September | maurielyn | 28111 lines |
| jhempenstall | 23623 lines | ||
| mrbh | 23139 lines | ||
| fwalker13 | 13141 lines | ||
| cmdevine | 8748 lines | ||
| mcakebread | 8196 lines | ||
| allangray | 7599 lines | ||
| Loco | 6281 lines | ||
| Robynnoffer | 6173 lines | ||
| macca | 6040 lines | ||
| John.F.Hall | 5170 lines | ||
| 2008 | August | jhempenstall | 12428 lines |
| mrbh | 9673 lines | ||
| camerong | 6277 lines | ||
| scmorris | 5623 lines | ||
| maurielyn | 5372 lines | ||
| Lenore | 5086 lines |
Updated hourly
![]() | Developed by the National Library of Australia as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program |
