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Old 10-02-2007, 10:18 AM   #1
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Spam weapon helps preserve books
The BBC has an article today about the use of reCAPTCHAs by Carnegie Mellon University researchers to resolve OCR ambiguities:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7023627.stm

It's not exactly breaking news, but it's a decent overview of the method involved. Maybe Baen could sign on to using this to help get their backlist online.
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