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Re: Blind should advise google
From:
Nelson Blachman <[log in to unmask]>
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Nelson Blachman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:20:42 -0800
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  I believe Google will store and make available the OCR'd versions of the
text in the library books it phhotographs not only because it needs the text
form for indexing and for displaying bits of text surrrounding your search
terms but also because Google will also save thereby on storage space and
downloading time.

--Nelson Blachman
  Oakland, Calif.
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Subject: Re: Blind should advise google


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> Also keep in mind that Google will often enable its users to read an html
> version of a webbased pdf file. Thus, if the scanned documents are made
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> files, there's no reason to suspect that Google would not continue to make
> html versions available. This is exciting stuff.
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> Eric
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