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Old 12-07-2006, 10:58 AM   #46
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What I was getting at is that Google is basically scanning every book they can get their hands on, they could provide Hadrien's notional "HUGE database of books" for plagiarism checks.



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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Well what you need is to ocr these images and get the text. Finding similarities between 2 texts is something really easy for a company such as google (that's part of how they can search the web).
About that: since the Google book search page advertises that you can "Search the full text of books and discover new ones" -- doesn't that suggest that Google might be OCRing those scanned holdings?
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