PDF Proofreading & Typesetting

I need a professional freelancer to correct OCR errors and typeset the corrected text to match scanned PDF books.

Source files are plain text files. pdf's of the originals that we want to match are provided, but no need to edit these pdfs.

Background: There are two out-of-print English-language books, the Sweet Songster and Thomas Hymnal, that we want to republish. They are song books, but there is no musical notation, so look like books of poems. We found pdf scans of the books along with OCR text. We're now looking for someone to correct the scanned and OCR'ed text and then typeset that to look like the original. The content is basic everyday language and does not require specialized knowledge or expertise. No understanding of the text is required, we just want to exactly match the scans of the originals.

Ideal Freelancer Should Possess:

- Enough English that we can communicate with each other, but the work is about matching an original exactly, so does not require an ability to do editing in English

- Ability to typeset to match the original scanned books in all details

- Exceptional attention to details

See [login to view URL] in the attached, where we have for the expected stages:

1. Scanned pdf

2. OCR'ed plain text (61,001 word Sweet Songster, 89,185 word Thomas Hymnal)

3. Corrected plain text example (first 1000 lines of the Sweet Songster)

4. Typeset MS Word example (page 17 of the Sweet Songster)

5. Final pdf example (page 17 of the Sweet Songster)

Both song books are more than the 25MB we could upload here, so we only posted the Sweet Songster. We will provide the Thomas Hymnal when that's possible.

Your responsibilities for each of the two books (Sweet Songster and Thomas Hymnal - totaling about 150,000 words in Stage-2 uncorrected plain text) include:

- Taking the provided Stage-1 reference pdfs and Stage-2 OCR text (provided) and produce Stage-4 typeset MS Word that matches the Stage-1 references.

- Correcting all inaccuracies or mistakes in the OCR results (this may be done on the plain text before typesetting or directly on the typeset, i.e., corrected plain text is not a required deliverable.

- Typesetting to match original books - The matching should include page sizes, font size and shape, including drop caps, word and punctuation spacing, page, song and paragraph numbering, song titles, authors and meter, line breaks, page breaks (so same content on same page numbers), indentation (which varies within the books), horizontal rulers, etc. There are no colors to be matched (just black text on white paper). Note that the typesetting is different between the books and varies between some songs within the books. Note also there is slightly odd punctuation and indentation involved.

- Ensuring that Stage-5 pdfs can be saved or printed from the Stage-4 MS Word versions and those also match the original pdfs.

Przepisywanie dokumentów Korekta tekstów Word

Numer ID Projektu: #37729595

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