Roget22 is back (Dev Diary 0001)

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:51:12 -0600

One of my longest-running projects is about to come out of dormancy, again. The thing that would eventually get the name “Roget22” started in, I believe, 2004, when I stumbled on the OCR’d text of the 1921 edition of Roget’s Thesaurus on the Project Gutenberg site.

For the unfamiliar, I point you toward the wiki entry for Project Gutenberg (hereafter “PG”).

According to the credits in the file, the original OCR job had been done in 1984 at MICRA Corp. However, it turns out that MICRA is still around, and their own website contradicts this on a few grounds:

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Roget22 is back (Dev Diary 0001)