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Old 12-12-2009, 02:43 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
great link, thanks!

I realize Google must spend thousands on their scanners, but some of the output on their books is just terrible-i don't see how anyone could get a decent OCR off some of those pages.

Yeah it can be hard to get a good OCR of a book. Distributed Proofreaders shows very well how hard it can be to get a book converted over to electronic format. Some of those pages are in bad shape when they are scanned especially the old microfiche.


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