X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pctb%2FREADME.privacy;h=957f68002c327b6fa44f33d38c1c94d51e290ac4;hb=64063c86071bbfc2de0fe032e372e1321c4b34e5;hp=fa63dea55c84df25f472c5bf3f57c75011591eb4;hpb=852f619ddd998ca771b37789d54be50e5670f193;p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git diff --git a/pctb/README.privacy b/pctb/README.privacy index fa63dea..957f680 100644 --- a/pctb/README.privacy +++ b/pctb/README.privacy @@ -29,14 +29,17 @@ won't happen. 2. YPP SC PCTB client dictionary server ======================================= -This server maintains the master databases of character and island -name images, and of new commodity names, which is 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 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