Posts tagged ‘digitizing’

Google this: Number of books in the world

August 11, 2010, 4:32 pm

Google has the answer to a lot of questions we ask. And looks like it has the answer to this one too.

The company has been trying to digitize books through its Google Books initiative for a few years now, so it is surprising that they didn’t answer this question at the outset.

How did they do it?

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ReCAPTCHA-ing old books

August 4, 2010, 3:28 pm

Digital is a place everyone seems to be going. Since Gutenberg’s modern press, printing presses across the world have churned out copious  amounts of content (estimates suggest printing revenues to be in excess of $ 1 trillion). To digitize all of it is a Herculean effort.

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