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Old 06-05-2013, 02:37 PM   #20
John F
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Originally Posted by FJames View Post
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Shotgun book digitizing (as described by Vernor Vinge):
- take every available paper copy of a book and run them through a shredder
- blow the shredded paper fragments down a wind tunnel lined with cameras that capture the images of the fragments, each with a few words or phrases on it
- use a powerful computer to string the many fragments together etc. etc.

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Something similar:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2009...ing-recaptcha/
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