Thread: Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader
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Old 03-19-2009, 05:52 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by mjh215 View Post
When I first started reading I thought perhaps Google was doing a clean OCR of their files for this project, apparently they are just importing the original OCR'd text they've been using which as others have pointed out is often quite horrid. That really is too bad as I think they are the one company capable of doing a good job at it...

-MJ
It still gives one a starting point from which to create a nice "cleaned-up" text; that's the important thing.
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