You may be correct that OCR won't be done, on the other hand it
might.  First, Google is in the search business and they probably wouldn't
do this unless searching the text was possible.  That means OCR.  However,
whether or not the text will be made available, or just images, is another
matter.

David Andrews

At 06:25 AM 12/14/2004, .dan. wrote:
>I read today that google is subsidizing the conversion of the contents of
>  major libraries by scanning to be available on the net.  While it is too
>much to think ocr will also be done, a simple choice of graphical format
>for the scanned material would make it possible for blind folk to do the
>ocr on the results.  Almost all ocr software packages use at least the tif
>graphical format to do conversions.  When a scan is done it is first put
>into a graphical file and then the ocr done on it.  If google were to
>choose this format and/or a simple way to convert into tif then we blind
>folk would also have access to the huge amount of library material to be
>done.  This seems a worthy project for the national blind groups and/or nls
>to take on to make sure google doesn't forget blind users.
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