[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

Tracy Poff tracy.poff at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 13:36:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> How do Google Books and libraries and Project Gutenberg and others do
> mass scanning and OCR of books? Do they use lots of money and funding
> to pay lots of people to do lots of scanning on lots of machines, or
> do they automate it in some way?

Regarding Project Gutenberg:

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

Crowdsourcing, for those in too much of a hurry.

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Tracy Poff



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