On September 17, 2009
Google Acquisition Will Help Correct Errors in Scanned Works
One of the issues swirling around the Google Book Search (GBS) case is the relatively high rate of errors in the images of the millions of old books Google has scanned. Google’s Engineering Director for GBS, Daniel Clancy, addressed this earlier this month when he told Bnet, “I liken our approach to scanning as similar to a progressive JPG. If you consider the ‘image’ to be all the world’s books and you consider a ‘fully rendered image’ as each of these books being in a digital form at some desired quality level, then our approach is to be able to get all of the books scanned with the knowledge that there is some statistical likelihood that any individual book…
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