Usecases

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• The Real-Time
• The Night Before
• The Big Job
• The Public Domain-er

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The real-time

• Jean-Pierre, a 12 year old student with low-vision in France scans a handout exercise given by his teacher.
• He uploads the scan to upscribers where the first pass OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is done automatically.
• A university student in Ghana gets an alert that someone is in need out there, logs on to upscribers, corrects any errors made by the OCR and ensures that the document is structured correctly.
• The student gets his transcribed, ahem upscribed, document in minutes and continues on with the exercise.

The Night Before

• A university professor is preparing his lecture for the following day
• he scans uploads and tags the document as "12 hours"

The Big Job

• Chad, a dyslexic university student, in Wichita, gets an text-book in pdf format and uploads it to
• Example of community, parallel, collaborative project archives etc.

The Public Domain-er

• Leila is a major fan of a 13th century Persian poet. She has tracked down a rare-copy of his....
• She scans the book as a series of graphics files, or a single PDF file and uploads it to upscribers.
• When she has time she corrects a page or two, so do all her friends from the "13th Century Persian Poets Appreciation Society"