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P J Evans

@kcoyle @internetarchive
Google Books does a poor job of digitizing. They never get fold-out pages.

19 June at 16:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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karen coyle

@PJ_Evans @internetarchive I also want to point out that scanned books are a much poorer reading experience than e-books - it's just a photograph of book pages, with maybe some un-reviewed OCR text behind it. Fine perhaps for some searching, discovery of a proper noun in a large amount of text, but we can't promote careful reading with this technology. I hope that someone is working on a way to turn these images into actual book text.

20 June at 16:58 | Open on mstdn.social
P J Evans

@kcoyle @internetarchive
That's why I prefer the scanned image to OCR'd test. (I had a job, for a while, fixing OCR'd text in insurance laws. Some of the output was actually funny, like "legal obligation" becoming "lethal obligation" and "District" getting scrambled in to "Omelet".)

20 June at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.social
karen coyle

@PJ_Evans @internetarchive The text can be really garbled. Note that it is offered to the visually impaired and I would like to hear how well it is working for them. When I look at it, it's a mess for things like tables of contents; plain text renders better, but there are still errors. Could something be set up where the text could be corrected by humans?

20 June at 17:27 | Open on mstdn.social
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