Google to OCR PDF docs +a bit about imaginary books
Google has announced that they will be using OCR on all PDF docs, see the following links for more info:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-uses-ocr-to-index-pdf-files.html
and
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081031-google-turns-on-ocr-for-scanned-pdfs.html
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Google has now decided that its open-source OCRopus technology, based on software called "Tesseract" that HP developed, is up to the task of indexing scanned documents that can contain any mixture of text, images, and coffee stains.
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...But now I want Google to OCR the Book of G'Kar although, as far as
imaginary books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books
are concerned, I want to read Jerzy Hacek's Dangerous Knowledge stories so I can find out more about the Librarians Militant.
Current Location: aerye
Current Mood: wistful
Tags: accessibility-pdf, cross-referencing, googlebooks, librarians militant
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