Google, per the Boston Globe link and excerpt below, plans complete,
accurate electronic text.
 - Adonna
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/12/14/google_to_index_works_at_harvard_other_major_libraries/?rss_id=BostonGlobeFrontPage

The company must use electronic scanners to capture digital images of every
page. These images must then be run through "optical character reader"
software, which can recognize the letters and convert them into electronic
text. Because the software is imperfect, human proofreaders must go over the
results. Then these billions of pages must be indexed, word by word, and the
results made available for searching on the Internet.

On 12/15/04 12:20:42 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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 bit



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