X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pctb%2FREADME.privacy;h=957f68002c327b6fa44f33d38c1c94d51e290ac4;hb=64063c86071bbfc2de0fe032e372e1321c4b34e5;hp=a59a2ada9910883119100ca0fc5581575241fd90;hpb=f8488ba218ce448dc5c02c8d83e85b6c551332eb;p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git diff --git a/pctb/README.privacy b/pctb/README.privacy index a59a2ad..957f680 100644 --- a/pctb/README.privacy +++ b/pctb/README.privacy @@ -29,13 +29,17 @@ won't happen. 2. YPP SC PCTB client dictionary server ======================================= -This server maintains the master database of character and island name -images, which is used for the commodity screen OCR and also for -determining your island name. - -By default, we ask the server for an updated set of dictionaries every -time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by invoking -rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only. +This server maintains the master copies of various databases which are +used to assist the OCR process. Collectively I call these +`dictionaries'. There is a dictionary of character and island name +images, of new commodity names, and of notable known OCR +misrecognitions. These are used for the commodity screen OCR, for +determining your island name, and for checking whether commodities not +found on the PCTB server are real. + +By default, we ask the server for appropriate updated dictionaries +every time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by +invoking rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only. If we find a screen display we don't understand, we will ask you about it by popping up a window which allows you to select the island (or