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Digitising books .. one word at a time

“To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then, to make them searchable, transformed into text using “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.” ...

This is so sweet isn’t it? How easily could this be integrated into EE?

This is a great piece of social work. I see there is a Wordpress plug-in already - might someone use that as the basis for creating an EE reCaptcha plug-in.