Tag Archives: Optical Character Recognition

Online Book Search – the Present and the Future

Posted on 4 January 2008 by Rick Mason

I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad … Continue reading →

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reCAPTCHA

Posted on 14 November 2007 by Rick Mason

You have heard about the book digitization projects.  You know that Optical Character Recognition is sometimes an uncertain thing, especially with offbeat typesets and obscure fonts. Then there is CAPTCHA (and here), the security method that many sites are using … Continue reading →

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