On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whether Google is good or evil is off-topic, and irrelevant to boot. > Whether or not they have a right to exclude bots isn't. Also worth noting, Project Gutenberg has digitised less than 30,000 > books since 1971. Distributed Proofreaders has done 15,000 of those > since 2000, so throughput is picking up. But, there are more than > enough too keep everyone busy for a very long time. The interesting thing is, even if you don't use a bot, it's still faster to copy/paste from Google manually than it is to get the book and scan it in yourself (assuming you don't want to destroy the original, anyway). If you're going to make a project out OCRing books that Google has already OCRed, I don't see any point in reinventing the scanning or first pass OCRing part. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
