With scanned works, it may be sufficient just to read the electronic text through at a reasonable speed, checking the book whenever something looks strange and making corrections as needed. Also run the text through a spelling checker for good measure. Errors in a typed text are often less obvious than those in a scanned text, so you may want to be more careful to compare the two texts as you go along. Writers through history use many spellings and idioms that are not familiar to modern American readers or spell-checking programs. Text, particularly dialogue, can intentionally involve non-standard usage or mechanics.
Many scholars prefer that no changes whatsoever be made in the electronic version of a text.
Choose the policy that makes the most sense to you. It's also a nice idea to include some brief transcriber's notes at the start or end of the text, explaining what you've done and giving publication information on the source text you used. If you already have space on a Web, Gopher, or FTP site, you can just place the work there, and tell us how to get to it. We can then include its URL in the Celebration of Women Writers and the On-Line Books Page . Or, you can submit the text to one of many book archives on the Net.