Carcharoth wrote: > How do Google Books and libraries and Project Gutenberg and others do > mass scanning and OCR of books? Do they use lots of money and funding > to pay lots of people to do lots of scanning on lots of machines, or > do they automate it in some way? > Google apparently pays peanuts and they certainly didn't automate in the past - I spend an unconscionable amount of time gettimg round bad Google scans, very many of which have parts of the page obscured by a person's hand. I'm stunned that they don't ask for repeat scans of some unusable pages. (They may have been on a learning curve.)
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