Had a wonderful follow-up exchange with someone from the Internet Archive. My current target of interest is getting a new OCR attempt as I write this! Lovely conversation; I now know a little bit more about how they work. If you are on Twitter, you’ll see that I was basically encouraged to send them a wishlist for any items I’d like to see re-processed.

Why Tom Sawyer thoughts? I am super grateful that they are doing something that I would like to see done (like that fence) and at the same time the guy on the other end is saying they’re grateful for a subject expert’s evaluation of their resources.. (which I’m obviously happy to do!). Tom Sawyer squared/mirrored, everybody happy!

Now the question is how much the re-processing will improve the results. Updates to come.

A reminder that you can donate to them..