On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@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:
Crowdsourcing, for those in too much of a hurry.