Thread: Authors Guild and Google reach settlement: Millions of scanned books to be available.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:29 AM   #15
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I just can't even start imagining how will Google acomplish the task of geting all books, magazines, newspapers in text format. As said above, the OCR and editing/cleanup is very time consuming. Multiply that for bilions of books and other writen media... My head hurts.
Google should turn to a community based collaborative approach. Where anyone who contribute over a certain quota get time-limited access to the whole archive.
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